The "Tower Day" is when we spend the whole day in a tower (that my husband & I built 6 years ago) watching the different species of birds that are around. We do this once a month, all year long. This day is strickly a birding day for us. Paul & Koni Fank Dassel
________________________________ From: Emil Anderson <[email protected]> To: Paul - Koni Fank <[email protected]> Sent: Thu, May 5, 2011 7:37:57 PM Subject: Re: [mnbird] May "Tower Day", Dassel What is "Tower Day?" Lois in Chippewa county --- On Wed, 5/4/11, Paul - Koni Fank <[email protected]> wrote: >From: Paul - Koni Fank <[email protected]> >Subject: [mnbird] May "Tower Day", Dassel >To: [email protected], [email protected] >Date: Wednesday, May 4, 2011, 9:47 AM > > > We did our Tower Day yesterday. We had 71 species. It was a good day >compared to the cool & windy days prior. The birds were very active. We were >out >in the Tower for 15 hours. We had more Harris's Sparrow show up besides the >one >that wintered over. We also had a B&W Warbler in the yard, but didn't see it >from the tower. The Baltimore Oriole showed up this morning. Here are the >birds >we seen from the tower. > >Northern Cardinal >Red-bellied Woodpecker >Common Grackle >Mourning Dove >Red-winged Blackbird >Ring-necked Pheasant >Blue Jay >Canada Goose >Wood Duck >White-throated Sparrow >Mallard >Dark-eyed Junco >Pileated Woodpecker >Sora >Black-capped Chickadee >American Crow >American Robin >House Wren >Brown-headed Cowbird >European Starling >White-breasted Nuthatch >Tree Swallow >Double-crested Cormorant >American Goldfinch >Purple Finch >Downy Woodpecker >Hairy Woodpecker >Song Sparrow >American White Pelican >Harris's Sparrow >Northern Flicker >Brown Thrasher >Lincoln's Sparrow >Rose-breasted Grosbeak >Trumpeter Swan >Green Heron >Yellow-rumped Warbler >Rock Pigeon >Ring-billed Gull >Turkey Vulture >Forester's Tern >Bald Eagle >Great White Egret >Eastern Bluebird >Hooded Merganser >Swainson's Thrush >Yellow-bellied Sapsucker >Ruby-crowned Kinglet >Eastern Phoebe >Great Blue Heron >Northern Harrier >Golden-crowned Kinglet >Common Loon >Red-tailed Hawk >Brown Creeper >House Finch >Yellow-headed Blackbird >Killdeer >Pine Warbler >Cooper's Hawk >Barn Swallow >Yellow Warbler >Clay-colored Sparrow >Wilson's Snipe >American Bittern >Great Horned Owl >Gray Catbird >Pied-billed Grebe > > >Paul & Koni Fank >Dassel, Meeker Cty > > > >-----Inline Attachment Follows----- > > >_______________________________________________ >mnbird mailing list >[email protected] >http://lists.mnbird.net/mailman/listinfo/mnbird >Unsubscribe: %(user_optionsurl)s > ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
