Others are better qualified than I as to saying where to find these birds, but perhaps it would help to know if you have a particular route in mind already, or would try to plan one based on their suggestions. (Welcome, and good birding) Linda Whyte
On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 11:31 PM, Craig Fischer <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, all, > > My wife and I will be visiting Minnesota this September. She is a wildlife > artist and was accepting into the Birds in Art show in Wausau, Wis. We are > in Wausau through Sunday, Sept. 12, and need to head to Wyoming for the next > exhibition, so we will have most of Sunday afternoon and Monday morning to > look for birds before heading west. > > I've put together a wishlist using the MOU's checklist. The owls, woodcock, > woodpecker, rails and grouse are our target species, but everything is > icing. I realize that some others may be out of season, having already > migrated south or not arriving in Minnesota. If anyone can offer some > reliable sites for finding these species in September - and if we are > looking during any hunting season (I've been mistaken for game before) - we > would be most grateful. > > Without further ado, here's the list: > Spruce Grouse > Sharp-tailed Grouse > Yellow Rail > Black Rail > Upland Sandpiper > Hudsonian Godwit > American Woodcock > Northern Hawk-owl > Barred Owl > Great Gray Owl > Chuck-will's-widow > Pileated Woodpecker > Blue-headed Vireo > Boreal Chickadee > Brown-headed Nuthatch > Winter Wren > Warblers, especially > Blue-winged Warbler > Connecticut Warbler > Rusty Blackbird > White-winged Crossbill > > Many thanks in advance, and I hope to meet some of you in our travels. > > Craig Fischer > Phoenix, Arizona > > ---- > Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net > Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html > ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
