[mou-net] Purple Gallinule

This evening at 4:12PM there was an adult Purple Gallinule in the Lac qui Parle WMA in northern Lac qui Parle county. It was along 211th Ave (CR 59) about a half-mile north of the T-junction with 370th Street. It was in the frozen marsh right near the east side of the road. It flew up and landed

[mou-net] Sprague's Pipit and Pacific Loon-Big Stone NWR.

At 4:20 this after noon there was a Sprague's Pipit at the recently burned area near the junction of CR40 CR15 at the south-central part of the BSNWR. The bird was initially on the road shoulder then it flew and landed in the burn. I will post a photo on the MOU recently seen page. Shortly after

[mou-net] California and Glaucous Gulls in Stevens, White-winged Scoters in Chippewa.

At 6PM Wednesday there was an adult California Gull at Clear Lake SW of the town of Alberta in Stevens County. Also at Clear Lake was a 1st-cycle Glaucous Gull standing on the ice. Also of note were 2 White-winged Scoters on Shakopee lake in north-central Chippewa County earlier in the day. --

[mou-net] Clark's Nutcracker in Lac qui Parle.

Nutcracker in NE Lac qui Parle County at 4:30pm this afternoon. It was in a stand of spruce on the south side of 330th St about a quarter-mile east of Hwy119. I will post a photo on recently seen page of the MOU site. Also of note today was a Townsend's Solitaire that has overwintered at Hantho

[mou-net] Gyrfalcon in Lac qui Parle.

At 11am today I saw an adult gray-morph gyrfalcon flying west along CR66 near the junction with CR69 in NE LqP County. Presumably this is the same individual that the Martins reported on December 17th about 3 miles NW of here. Also a Townsend's Solitaire and four Bohemian Waxwings are still

[mou-net] Black-legged Kittiwake and White-eyed Vireo in Lac qui Parle County.

The White-eyed Vireo found yesterday by Herb Dingmann was still present in the cedars at the same location at 1:15 this afternoon. I found an immature Black-legged Kittiwake at the Big Stone NWR at 3:15PM today. The bird was on the east reservoir among the tree stumps near the Hwy75 dam. It was

[mou-net] Salt Lake Trip

-- Forwarded message -- From: Bill Unzen bill.un...@gmail.com Date: Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 7:34 PM Subject: Re: [mou-net] Salt Lake Trip To: Pastor Al Schirmacher pasto...@princetonfreechurch.net 129 species were tallied on Saturday night for the 35th annual Salt Lake weekend. Well

[mou-net] Bean Goose not present late Thursday.

I didn’t get a chance to look for the bean goose until after 5pm today. It was not present nor were any of the white-fronted geese still at the original location. None of the geese could be relocated at any nearby wetlands. -- Bill J. Unzen Lac Qui Parle County. Join or Leave mou-net:

[mou-net] Probable Bean Goose in Lac qui Parle County.

At about 3pm today I found an apparent Bean Goose with 18 Greater White-fronted Geese NW of Madison, Lac qui Parle County. It was at a wetland on the west side of 211th Ave about a quarter mile south on Hwy75 (section 12, Arena Twp.) adjacent to the Madrena WMA. The bird was studied for about a

[mou-net] Salt Lake List.

Since being requested by several people here is the complete list from the Salt Lake festival on the April 25th. Snow Goose Ross’s Goose Canada Goose Wood Duck Gadwall American Wigeon Mallard Blue-winged Teal Northern Shoveler Northern Pintail Green-winged Teal Canvasback Redhead

[mou-net] Salt Lake weekend.

Good turnout plus the interesting weather (mid-80s on Thursday then an inch of snow on the ground over much of the area by Saturday morning) made for good few days of birding. 152 species were tallied on Saturday night. Including Friday and Sunday additions 159+ species were seen in the area over

[mou] Update on Say's and Sabine's

this afternoon. Later at 6:45pm I saw another immature Sabine's Gull at Lac Qui Parle Lake. It was seen from the overlook along CR33 just SE of its junction with CR26. It was flying NW up the lake with the large numbers of Franklin's Gulls present. Bill Unzen Lac Qui Parle County

[mou] Another Neotropic Cormorant.

is a juvenile or first-summer bird. Bill Unzen Lac Qui Parle County. -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://moumn.org/pipermail/mou-net_moumn.org/attachments/20070902/beeba27a/attachment-0001.html

[mou] LT Jaeger update and Sabine's Gull.

along CR44 2 miles south of Hwy2. While observing the shrike I stepped a few feet into the ditch and flushed a group of rails that included 5 Soras and 3 Yellow Rails. They flew about 30 feet and landed at the edge of the harvested wheat field along the south side of the road. Bill Unzen Lac Qui

[mou] Neotropic Cormorant and Lark Bunting in Lac Qui Parle.

foraging on a gravel minimum maintenance road in Augusta Twp. From Marietta go 1 mile east on Hwy40 then about 0.8 mile north on 131st Avenue. It was an adult male still in almost full breeding plumage. Bill Unzen Lac Qui Parle County. -- next part -- An HTML attachment

[mou] Arctic Tern update.

CR64 and CR67. Bill Unzen Lac Qui Parle County. -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://moumn.org/pipermail/mou-net_moumn.org/attachments/20070715/2e635abf/attachment.html

[mou] Arctic Tern in Lac Qui Parle.

Peder Svingen left me a message that he and Phil Chu found an adult Arctic Tern around noon today at the Big Stone National Wildlife Refuge while conducting a shorebird survey. My machine cut him off before he finished but it was apparently last seen headed toward the low-flow area. Bill Unzen

[mou] Tricolored Heron and Yellow-crowned Night-Heron in Lac Qui Parle.

, Shible Twp.) in Swift County. The goose has molted most of its primaries so it isn't going anywhere very soon. Bill Unzen Lac Qui Parle County. -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://moumn.org/pipermail/mou-net_moumn.org/attachments/20070712

[mou] Snowy Plover in Lac Qui Parle.

off work until after dark but I will post an update tomorrow morning. Bill Unzen Lac Qui Parle County. -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://moumn.org/pipermail/mou-net_moumn.org/attachments/20070706/2d53fe4e/attachment-0001.html

[mou] Snowy Plover correction.

The Snowy Plover was 450 feet (not meters) north of the road at closest and moving northeast up the channel to the next slough. Bill Unzen Lac Qui Parle County. -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://moumn.org/pipermail/mou-net_moumn.org

[mou] Snowy Plover not seen.

I was unable to relocate the Snowy Plover at the original location this morning and did not see any sign of a pale plover at any of the shorebird spots in a two mile radius. If it reappears I will post an update. Bill Unzen Lac Qui Parle County. -- next part -- An HTML

[mou] White-eyed and Bell's Vireo in Pipestone County.

diversity of waterfowl then I expected including Lesser Scaup, Ring-necked Ducks, American Wigeon, Northern Pintail, Green-winged Teal, and Hooded Mergansers. At least one male Great-tailed Grackle is still present at Engbarth slough in NE Pipestone County. Bill Unzen Lac Qui Parle County

[mou] Tricolored Heron still present late Thursday.

The Tricolored Heron was still present at Black Rush Lake, Lyon County at 8:04PM, June 7th. It was briefly seen as it flew low over the minimum maintenance road that runs through the marsh. It came out of the eastern lobe and landed in the larger western portion of the lake and out of sight in

[mou] Salt Lake Weekend

At least 131 species tallied for Saturday. Some highlights (and the few lowlights): A lone White-faced Ibis was found in the flooded area at the north end of the Mount Wickham area (2miles south then 2 miles east of Marietta), but was gone later in the morning. This same area held good numbers of

[mou] Glossy Ibis update

I arrived at the reported location at about 2:30pm and found the group of 23 ibises in section 6 of Hamlin Twp. and the first one I scoped was the Glossy. After only about ten minutes of observation the ibises took flight and flew 1 mile northwest and landed in another flooded area along the same