Hello everyone,
The 2010 Western Great Lakes Owl Monitoring season is just around the corner! Many of you are hearing owls in your neighborhoods... and we're gearing up to survey the state for calling owls again. We have routes established all over the state of Minnesota, and are looking for volunteers to survey each route ONCE between April 1 and 15, 2010. We ask that you run the route between dusk and dawn (specific times are listed in our instruction booklet on our website), stopping once at each of 10 assigned points and listening passively for 5 minutes. Each route is 9 miles long, and takes approximately 90 minutes to complete. Record anything you hear (including 'nothing'), and send in your data sheets. It's simple and fun, and a GREAT excuse to get out at night and listen for some birds. We have a certification process that we ask you to complete, the link to that certification is on our website also. http://www.hawkridge.org/research/springowl.html We don't have a master map online yet, but I've listed the counties below that have open routes. If you'd like a route in a particular county/counties, let me know and I'll do my best to accommodate your requests. When you email me, please include the following information: 1. Your full name 2. Your mailing address 3. Your phone number(s) 4. County in which you reside 5. County in which you would like a route 6. Number of miles you are willing to drive to the start of an owl route. DO NOT REPLY TO THIS EMAIL. Contact Julie O'Connor [email protected] if you want to volunteer or if you have any questions. Open routes are located in the following counties: Kittson Roseau Lake of the Woods (near Baudette) Koochiching (near Baudette) Marshall Polk Beltrami North central Itasca Cook (near Grand Marias) Cass (1 n central, 1 s central) Morrison Todd Norman Becker Clay Otter Tail (5 routes) Grant Stearns (all in SW of county) Kandyohi Chippewa Renville Redwood Brown Pipestone Murray Jackson Nobles Rock Pipestone (?) Waseca Rice (?) Goodhue (?) Thank you! Julie Julie O'Connor Volunteer Coordinator/Naturalist 218-348-2291 [email protected] <http://[email protected]/> Hawk Ridge Bird Observatory: www.hawkridge.org <http://www.hawkridge.org/> Spring Owl Monitoring: http://www.hawkridge.org/research/springowl.html Peregrine Watch: http://www.hawkridge.org/education/pw.html email: [email protected] ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
