To answer Julian's question, while I watched the mockingbird, it was acting normally like a mockingbird. No evidence of a problem, shaking the head, or anything else.
----- Forwarded Message ----- >From: Julian Sellers <[email protected]> >To: Frank Berdan <[email protected]> >Cc: [email protected]; [email protected] >Sent: Monday, May 13, 2013 8:42 PM >Subject: Re: [mou-net] Mockingbird, St. Paul, BVNS > > > >Thanks for the reports, everyone. I’m curious whether anybody noticed the bird repeatedly shaking its head. > >Julian >From: Frank Berdan >Sent: Monday, May 13, 2013 8:09 PM >To: Julian Sellers >Cc: [email protected] ; [email protected] >Subject: Re: [mou-net] Mockingbird, St. Paul, BVNS > Julian, thanks for the original post. Thx also to Roy and Linda for updates. > >Kathi & I found the bird about 7:00 tonight, then pointed it out to two other parties. > >Mini-milestone for me: 220 in Ramsey County. > >Frank Berdan > > > >On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 11:30 AM, Julian Sellers <[email protected]> wrote: > >Between 9:45 and 10:15 this morning I observed a Northern Mockingbird in the >Bruce Vento Nature Sanctuary in St. Paul. It was hanging around in the rows >of young oaks in the center of the sanctuary, sometimes feeding on the >ground, then it flew to the nearby cottonwoods on the east side of the main >path. It repeatedly shook its head, as if trying to free itself from a >thread or something (which I could not see) around its neck. >> >>The sanctuary is between Mounds Park and downtown St. Paul’s Lowertown. Enter “Commercial St & E 4th St, St Paul, MN” to Google Maps. The entrance is from a small parking lot at that intersection. To get there you have to take Commercial Street from Mounds Blvd (E 4th street is blocked due to construction). >> >>I’ve been going to BVNS this spring to check for activity at the kestrel nest box that St. Paul Audubon placed there in the winter of 2012. Last spring a pair of kestrels fledged five young. This year, I think the box is empty. >> >>Julian >>St. Paul >> >>---- >>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
