Seems like collisions with building windows. Horrible. I wish building owners would spend a little cash to put anti-collision transparent stickers in the windows. Kathryn Rudd (Rusty’s Friend) Eagan
Sent from my iPad > On Nov 14, 2019, at 6:53 AM, GREG ELIZABETH CLOSMORE <[email protected]> > wrote: > > On Monday November 11 walking on 6th near the Nicollet mall downtown > Minneapolis there was a dead woodcock on the sidewalk. I took a picture . > Also a dead flicker and junco nearby . Weekend fatalities . > > On Nov 9, 2019, at 12:28 PM, Pamela Freeman via Mnbird > <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > Interesting. I wish I had gotten a better look at it. It flew up, not high, > not more than 10 feet and went down again not too distant, 200 feet, maybe a > bit more, but I couldn't tell for sure if it landed where it went low, or > continued its flight in the trees. It was a dogwood and willow thicket it > went back down in, alongside a pond and a stream that feeds from the pond > into Cedar Creek. I didn't pursue it. Didn't wish to frighten it farther. > I was glad of the glimpse. > > > On Sat, Nov 9, 2019, 9:49 AM Steve Weston > <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > Snipe are definitely more likely as they try to overwinter if they find an > unfrozen wet area. Snipe are birds of the marshland. This time of year they > are found along flowing streams, along the shore, and in muddy seeps. > Woodcocks are birds of moist woodlands. Earlier in the fall you find them > under the bushes. This late in the season I am not sure what habitat they > would seek. They have different flight patterns. The Woodcock has short > stubby wings and when flushed will tend to stay low, zig-zagging, and landing > a short distance away. The Snipe is a stronger flyer with longer wings that > will often circle when flushed. I don't know whether these are tendencies or > diagnostic characteristics. > > Steve Weston > On Quigley Lake in Eagan, MN > [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> > > > On Sat, Nov 9, 2019 at 8:12 AM Pamela Freeman > <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > So, could have been snipe. Certainly was near a marshy area, though the woods > it was in wasn't marshy itself. But adjacent a wet meadow. Similar shape and > long beak. I had figured it to be one of the two. > > On Sat, Nov 9, 2019, 2:06 AM Steve Weston > <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > Woodcock reports through the 10th of November are not unusual. But, there are > only 8 reports later than that in the state with only 3 reports later than > the 15th and only one report in December. I have only seen 1 report of a > Woodcock on the Christmas Bird Counts in the past 5 years or so. Further > inquiry revealed that the observer who had hunted Woodcock was unfamiliar > with Snipe and the marsh habitat was far more suggestive of a Snipe > observation. The observation did not pass review. > > Steve Weston > On Quigley Lake in Eagan, MN > [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> > > > On Fri, Nov 8, 2019 at 3:53 PM Kyle TePoel via Mnbird > <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > Pamela, > > I heard woodcock-like "peent"-ing a couple days ago in the Sax-Zim Bog that > stopped me in my tracks, as I don't believe I've ever had one in November > either. I didn't report it anywhere for the thought that it surely must have > been something else, some sort of insect (even though they are pretty much > absent by now). But after reading your email, I checked ebird and a very > small percentage--but some nonetheless--of Minnesota checklists in early > November (.1%) have reported Woodcock, according to their "frequency" bar > chart. See here: > > https://ebird.org/species/amewoo/US-MN > > So you might not be crazy (and I might not be either...always debatable)! > > Kyle Te Poel > Stillwater Township, MN > > On Fri, Nov 8, 2019 at 1:41 PM Pamela Freeman via Mnbird > <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > Last weekend I was traipsing and moseying in the woods and thickets around my > yard, it is really bigger than a typical yard, but, it isn't really big > enough to be called 'land' either, at least the parts of it that are > accessible when water is not stiff, that is to say, when it is liquid and you > would need to wade, swim, or slog in mud. > In any case, I was perusing the areas, on the lookout for buckthorn, which is > easy to spot this time of year, everything else (native) having shed its > leaves. > I was in an area that is more thicket than woods, and adjoins a thin band of > wet or moist thicket that adjoins a wet meadow and large marsh and ponds and > creek when something EXPLODED in front of me. > I had just enough time to note the shape and general coloring of the body, > and a rather long beak. > It had to be a woodcock or snipe, and given where it was, and what I did get > a look at, I am fairly certain it was a wood cock. > But, this time of year? > It was NOT a pheasant, though we certainly run across those, but no long > tail, wrong shape and size, and, that beak. It was very obvious and it was > long.. Slender and long. > It's takeoff was noisy, not just the dead leaves and stuff that it displaced > as it exploded upward and forward, but also the sound of its wings. > > I have not seen one here before, well, I have not seen one before, outside of > a book or a specimen in a museum or nature lab. > So, I was thrilled, but also skeptical, because of the late date. > Still. It was very much identifiable, or so it really did seem to me. > I paged through my Sibley, my Audubon, Peterson's. Nothing else looks even > vaguely like it. > I went to AllAboutBirds online. > Same. > > Otherwise, I am seeing the usual late fall suspects these days, a turkey now > and then, or a few, which I still find exciting because it wasn't so very > long ago that one didn't see them wild here. > Pheasants, of course, I live near open fields and farm fields and undeveloped > land. > Lots of nuthatches, chickadees, juncos by the dozen, a handful of bluejays > who always sound like more than they are, crows, dulled goldfinches, > occasionally a hawk, at night, we sometimes still hear owls calling, a few > cardinals to provide a cheer of color if not their cheer call. > > Pamela > Oak Grove > Northern Anoka County > > > > > > - Pamela > Never give up on a dream just because of the length of time it will take to > accomplish it. 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