Unfortunately we seem to go through this every winter regardless of the area. I repeatedly witnessed people trespassing and stressing the owls. There hasn't been any reason to even leave your vehicle to view these birds. Very unfortunate. One more reason not to share sightings.
Sent from my iPhone > On Jan 4, 2014, at 3:57 PM, Sue Keator <[email protected]> wrote: > > To reiterate this, I saw two men trespassing into a field where they > flushed the owl from the irrigation equipment. > Different bird, as this was on Emery rather than Hogan. They were quite > far into the field. But they just had to get close for pictures - ugh. > Wish the farmer had shown up. > Sue on Melody Lake, Edina > > >> On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 5:02 PM, Paul Budde <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> In addition to Jeff's caution below about care for the Snowys, listserve >> moderators sometimes get posts from members with concerns, asking us to >> pass >> them along. As an example, we received the following this morning: >> >> "Around 2pm, I observed a photographer on Hogan Ave walking a considerable >> distance into a farmer's field and flushing a Snowy Owl who had been >> sleeping. Later in the afternoon, as I watched another owl along the same >> road, the landowner drove by and I talked with him for awhile. He was very >> nice and excited about the owls but expressed concern that people were >> walking into his fields and potentially damaging his drainage tiles." >> >> Let's try to avoid behavior that may impair others' ability to enjoy these >> birds. Though those fields look like frozen tundra, they are still private >> property. >> >> Thanks for reading, and please keep finding and reporting more birds! >> >> For the MOU listserve, >> Paul >> >> Paul Budde >> Minneapolis >> [email protected] >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Minnesota Birds [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of jeff >> fischer >> Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2014 5:19 PM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: [mou-net] Dakota County >> >> Was out and about in Dakota County today. I came across 4 snowy owls from >> 170th -190th between 52 and Hogan. I was able to photograph all 4 but one >> was far away and into the sun so the picture was just for documentation. >> The >> highlight was around 4:00 when the bird on Hogan, that Steve Weston Located >> during the Hasting's Christmas Bird Count, perched on the telephone poles >> on >> the side of the road. This made for great pictures in the light of the >> setting sun. >> >> Please try not to get too close to the snowies. If you get close enough to >> make the bird flush then you are too close. Every time a bird flushes it >> burns up energy it needs to survive. >> >> I also was able to photograph the long-tailed duck under the railroad >> bridge >> at Prescott. >> >> Thanks, >> >> Jeff Fischer >> http://ecobirder.blogspot.com/ >> >> ---- >> 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 > > ---- > 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
