A Minn Birding Weekends group found a singing Henslow's Sparrow at
Great River Bluffs State Park in Winona Co yesterday. It was in the
eastern-most field along the north side of the main park drive, just
before the road comes to a hiking trail along an obvious row of pines.
The bird was quite
The spring season (3/1 - 5/31) has ended. If you will be sending in a
seasonal report for inclusion in the spring summary to be published in
The Loon, please do so now. Electronic reports should be e-mailed to me
at this address by June 15th. (The deadline for electronic reports is
always 15
A pair of evening grosbeaks were seen at a feeder around 2:30 p.m., May
31, at the Krause-Goodman-Havey hobby farm on the north shore of Lake
Wagonga in Kandiyohi County. The farm, off County Road 19, is not
accessible to the public.
We were startled to see these two join the many Rose-Breasted
On Monday May 31 I found a Common Moorhen in Cottage Grove. It was on a
pond (the smaller and most easterly body of water) on the north side of
100th St S, where the road crosses a marsh, about 1/3 mile east of
Jamaica Ave. I had visited the area to check for Loggerhead Shrikes,
which have
Nancy:
Here's another possibility, much more probable since Hairy Woodpeckers are
(usually) totally non-migratory...
I'm not sure which way it goes, but the Downy and Hairy have tan on their
new plumage feathers that is either below or above the white, so in new
plumages you'll see the tan
I spotted a black-billed cuckoo in Morrison County (Lake Alexander/Cushing
area) on May 28th. It was located just off of County Road 3 on Cottonwood
Rd on a fence beside a tree farm. In walking the area the next two days I
did not see it again.
Ethel Peterson
For more information on this and related info, you also can check out
the website of the
Western Atlantic Shorebird Association
http://www.vex.net/~hopscotc/shorebirds/
for band combinations in particular:
http://www.vex.net/~hopscotc/shorebirds/en/resources.html
I also encourage you to
Hey birders!
Our family has a tradition of Memorial BIG Days. With
a son born on Thursday, this year's BIG day had to
start late at 4am and be cut short at noon on Monday.
(God bless Mother-in-Laws who make these things
possible!)
I ended up with 114 species for the day with
highlights listed
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Spent a showery day today with Phyllis Bofferding in McLeod Co.
Red-necked Grebe - Lake Whitney
Virginia Rail
Willow
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There is a male hybrid Bullock's/ Baltimore Oriole coming to feeders at Pearl
for the past 5 days. It is mostly Bullock's and would be
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Hello:
Well now things are slowing down in the Twin Cities and migration is =
passing by, are ya interested
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