[mou] Hummingbird Update: It's a girl!

Thanks to additional photos yesterday of the hummingbird's rump and tail feathers, Don Mitchell (master hummingbird bander who did a lot of work with Selasphorus in California) is convinced the bird is an adult female. Photos and Don's valuable comments are at the hummingbird page

[mou] Hummingbird back on Saturday

She appeared momentarily at 7:22. Then not again until 7:54. Dress warm--it's cold and windy today. Laura Erickson Duluth, MN NOTE address change: blue...@lauraerickson.com Producer, For the Birds radio program http://www.lauraerickson.com/ There is symbolic as well as actual beauty in the

[mou] Pacific Loon - Two Harbors, Lake Co.

There was a winter-plumaged Pacific Loon at Agate Bay in Two Harbors this morning near the end of the western breakwall. I heard about the bird second-hand through Jan Green - it apparently was present on Thursday, too. This may be the same bird that Dan Amerman reported on October 26. Jim

[mou] Great Black-backed Gull - L. Calhoun

Lake Calhoun's 7th gull species of the season was spotted identified this evening just before 5PM by Bruce Fall. It is a first winter bird. Also present were several adult Thayer's Gulls, 6 Horned Grebes, 2 Common Goldeneyes. The CAGU and LBBG were NOT found. Paul Minneapolis, Minnesota

[mou] Townsend's Solitaire refound, Sherburne County

This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --=_NextPart_000_0004_01C4CF2E.51AC2D20 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit This afternoon (Saturday) the Townsend's Solitaire was still on the Ann Lake Campground Road, 1.5 miles east of CR5, on the

[mou] Clark's Nutcracker Report 11/20/04 North Shore

An anonymous caller left a message today with details of a sighting of a CLARK'S NUTCRACKER near Tom's Logging Camp, which is on Scenic Hwy 61 east of Duluth, across from Stoney Point. Dave Benson Duluth, MN

[mou] Excelsior CBC

Earlier this year a letter was sent to all participants in the Excelsior CBC notifying them of the need for a new compiler. At this time, while there have been several conversations, there has not been a volunteer to take over the compiler duties. We would truly hate to see this CBC die, after

[mou] Hummingbird update

She stayed today through 1 or 1:30, and then retreated for the day, so a few people didn't get to see her. I've posted some videos on the website: 1 Slow motion with Windows Media Player, 5 mb file http://www.lauraerickson.com/graphics/Birds/LauraDigitalCamera/Hummingbird/RufousSlow18sec.wmv 1

[mou] Owl etiquette

I took a break from my hummingbird watch to go out to the bog this afternoon. I made just a cursory run through, but still found 9 Northern Hawk Owls and one grouse (which I didn't see long enough to be sure, but it was probably a Ruffed). I ran into more birders than owls, though. It's

[mou] Owling Excursion 11/20

---1101005242 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Definitely one of the best birding days for me in a long time! An early start from the cities got us to the bog a little after 7:20 am. We saw our two target owl species in the

[mou] RFI northern owls

Thanks to the many observers who continue to post dates, numbers of birds, specific locations, and the name of the county for Great Gray, Northern Hawk, Snowy, and Boreal owls in Minnesota. All these data are being compiled in order to document the magnitude and geographical extent of this