From: Earl Orf [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2016 10:11 PM To: William Bronn Subject: Re: [mou-net] Mountain Bluebird & Townsends Solitaire Thanks, Bill. Those are great directions. I'm going to try again tomorrow. Earl Orf www.earlorfphotos.com William Bronn <[email protected]> wrote: Yes, Earl, it sounds like you may have been south of this strange, isolated triangle of public land. I don't have a GPS to follow the coordinates, but, on my home computer, I bring up Google Maps and type the coordinates into the "search" box and hit enter: it comes right up on the map. After taking down the roads to get there [I-94 to co. rd. 24 (Clearwater)over the Mississippi to Co. Rd. 8 SE (also called River Road)northward to 77th STREET (don't let the avenues confuse you because they also come into Co. Rd. 8); turn left into 77th St. and take it to a 90 degree turn left - STOP THERE AND PARK - going further is private road going to a farm house- (looking at the aerial view on Google maps is helpful, too); then continue to walk straight west (over the half dozen piles of gravel) about 40 yards and the triangle of open meadow will be on your right. The coordinates take you about 2/3 toward the far end - that is where we first saw the BBs; after that they chased around the meadow but seemed to like to return to that first spot! The Solitaire was there, too. Did I give you too much information? Bill -----Original Message----- From: Earl Orf [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2016 5:10 PM To: 'William Bronn' Subject: RE: [mou-net] Mountain Bluebird & Townsends Solitaire Hi Bill, I was also looking for the Mountain Bluebird on the 9th from 8:45 to 10:00 but I think I was in the wrong place. I turned in where there was a sign for Clear Lake Park. There was a large grassy field right there and I was assuming that was where it had been seen. I didn't have directions that were as specific as yours. Does it sound like I was not at the right place? If so, I might try again tomorrow. Earl Orf www.earlorfphotos.com http://www.etsy.com/shop/EarlOrfPhotos -----Original Message----- From: Minnesota Birds [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of William Bronn Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2016 9:50 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [mou-net] Mountain Bluebird & Townsends Solitaire The male Mountain Bluebird was seen today in the company of about eight male and female Eastern Bluebirds at 11 AM at the same coordinates [45.4603 -94.0983] as first reported, in Sherburne County, north of Clearwater. A Townsends Solitaire was also spotted briefly with them. This large, triangular meadow is reached from the end of 77th St [where there is a little space for parking] and hiking west ~40 yds. Bill Bronn & Ken Marble 3/9 --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
