Hello fellow MN birders, A wonderful opportunity presented itself and my wife and I have decided to leap at the chance to be closer to her family, live on a lake, and leave the big city life behind. It is going to be a weird feeling for awhile and I am going to miss Minneapolis quite a bit but.......
.........living on a nice big lake and switching from a yard list that contains 99% House Sparrows, Starlings, Pigeons, and Crows to a yard list that will soon contain Loons, Grebes, Yellow-headed Blackbirds, Harris's Sparrows, and probably another 75 or so other bird species within a year should ease my pain. Also, we are going to be living less than 500 yards away from Minnesota. We are moving to the north shore of Spirit Lake in NW Iowa. Jackson county (MN) will be just a few minutes away and I expect that I will frequently be checking it out along with the other SW Minnesota counties. So, if anyone is planning on heading down to extreme SW Minnesota (or NW Iowa) for some birding, send me an email and I'll let you know if I've seen anything lately. -- Derek Bakken [email protected] ornitholature.blogspot.com Please contribute your sightings to our list; it is only as good as members make it! Also, please report your bird sightings to eBird and/or the MOU. The information gathered is vital to the future of birds. ---- Join or Leave mou-net:http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives:http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
