I'm going to be in Stillwater for about 24 hours this weekend. Any suggestions/ideas would be greatly appreciated. With my thanks...
----- Original Message ----- From: Minnesota Birds <[email protected]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Sent: Mon Jan 24 20:40:25 2011 Subject: [mou-net] unusual locations Fun topic: Parking lot: Gilson Park, Wilmette, Illinois, hot August day, Phillipines Monkey-eating Eagle flies 25 feet in front of me, OMG, alas with jesses and Jim Fowler and Marlin Perkins filming a TV show. There ought to be a law causing heart failure. Yard: Wilmette, Illinois, Sutton's Warbler, brilliant double Parula-type song, heard as I awoke on the 30th of May, looked through Peterson's until I found song, then and only then did I look at species name, out in yard in pajamas in 4 seconds, bird stayed high in oak all morning, saw yellow throat several times and not much else but the song was unmistakable. Laughed at until one photographed in Indianapolis a decade later. Work: immature Bachman's Sparrow, Everglades National Park parking lot at research station for a week before the supposedly expert biologists and birders working there could figure out what the darn thing was. Tough ID. Restaurant: Skymania Hotel, Columbia Gorge, Washington. 3 birders independently see a Frigatebird (sp.) cruising through the Douglas Fir for a total of about 6 seconds total view and none of us told each other until we noticed on the Internet an amateur birder saw one the day before within 5 miles. Hotel: eating breakfast on the sunroof of an Argentine hotel in the Andean foothills when the morning flight of the supposedly rare Burrowing Parrot flew over. An hour later and 5,000 birds into the flock I gave up and finished breakfast. Bob Russell, Dakota County ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
