I've been exchanging information with this birder who's about to visit, but will be working or out of town when he's here so can't take him out myself. Here are some particular questions I could use help with.
Note that he's changed his likely itinerary to go up to McGregor the evening of Thursday, June 1, and on Friday the 2nd start either in Aitkin County or maybe as far north as Sax-Zim, working his way back to the Twin Cities. On Saturday, he will go somewhere like Murphy-Hanrehan in the morning before going to the airport mid-day. Again anybody who would like to join him or help out in any of those areas, please let me know or contact him directly: Mike Resch, MResch8702 at aol.com Questions: I can't think of any really good places between Aitkin County and, say, the Sherburne NWR area: any ideas? Is there anywhere in this east-central part of the state with a good variety of waterbirds? Shorebirds? (though of course they are likely to be all gone by June). Has anyone checked out Sax-Zim this spring? Has there been anything good like Great Gray Owls there (or in Aitkin County or elsewhere)? Is there a better itinerary for that amount of time in terms of seeing a lot of species? I should add that it's always been gratifying birding with visitors, and I have also gotten great help myself from ABA members in Utah, England, etc... so I hope (since I won't be available) that someone will offer to join Mike. (I told him he'll have to promise to get you a Bicknell's Thrush or some such if you visit New England.) Thanks, Stephen Greenfield Minneapolis tapaculo at halcyon.ws > Date: Sat, 19 May 2007 16:34:02 -0500 > From: "Jeff Stephenson" <stephensonjeff at charter.net> > Subject: [mnbird] Need a birding partner > To: "mnbird" <mnbird at lists.mnbird.net>,"mou" <mou-net at > biosci.cbs.umn.edu> > > Mike Resch of Pepperell, MA contacted me and is interested in having a birding partner for a couple of days. I can't accompany him. > He said he will have all day available on the 1st, and maybe 1/2 day on the 2nd of June .... > His goal would be to get as many species as he can. He would like to get Yellow Rail if possible but since his MN state list is only 24 most > any bird will be a new state bird. > > If you would be willing to bird with him his email address is MResch8702 at aol.com. He doesn't want to hire a guide. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: winmail.dat Type: application/ms-tnef Size: 5016 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://moumn.org/pipermail/mou-net_moumn.org/attachments/20070523/eae9cebf/attachment-0001.bin
