Yes, and they probably are Redstarts, which is a warbler that is now migrating through the twincities area. I have seen many on Nicollet Island within the past two weeks.
Corrie Zoll wrote: > > I was visiting my mother on Mother's day, and saw a bright orange and black > bird in her garden that I'd never seen before. I mentioned it to some other > community gardening folks yesterday, and one of them called it a "redstart". > Then, later in the afternoon yesterday, I saw two more of them in a > community garden on 17th Avenue S. Has anyone else seen these? > > In the same conversation yesterday, someone mentioned seeing a large group > of orioles in the city. > > Corrie Zoll > Midtown Phillips > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Garwood, Robin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "'Bruce Gaarder'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2002 11:37 AM > Subject: RE: [Mpls] RE: mowing > > > Michael's point underlines what I was going to say: if human-power is an > > option for accomplishing a given task, it is the best option. All of our > > energy comes from somewhere, and the sad fact is that most of our sources > > are almost deliriously unpleasant. Given the figures Michael quoted, it > is > > far, far more responsible to use the dirty gas mower and suffer the blue > > cloud yourself, rather than using your electric mower to expand and export > > it to the neighborhoods surrounding the Riverside power plant. Unless > > you've got solar shingles on your shed to charge your mower. In which > case > > my helmet is off to you. > > > > Now, there is an opening here for a cynic to point out that the fuel we > use > > for human-power is not produced in an especially environmentally friendly > > way at present. There are two questions that we must then answer: > > a)Does someone using a reel mower actually burn that many more > > calories than someone using a gas or electric? > > > > b)Do you change the amount of food you eat based on whether you plan > > on mowing your lawn later? > > > > OK, that was rather silly. But there is a deeper question in this > > discussion that I'd like to explore. It involves the idea of "quality." > > Which is a higher-quality lawn, the one with somewhat uneven grass or the > > one with toxic chemicals, heavy metals, etc., on, above, below, and all > > around it? Which green pepper is of higher quality, the one with a bad > spot > > or the one soaked in pesticides? > > > > When I was young, my mother would fly into tornadic, frenzied, stressful > > cleaning fits when relatives were coming over. My father would tease her > > gently about her ideal of a clean house, saying that her goal was "to make > > it look like no one lives here." In our neighborhoods, it seems we seek > the > > same level of sanitization, but with even worse consequences. I won't > list > > here what burning fossil fuels has been proven to do to us. > > > > What are the chances the park board or some other city agency can > encourage > > folks to use non-powered mowers, blowers and such, as we encouraged people > > not to use phosphates on their yards? > > > > > > Robin Garwood > > Seward > > _______________________________________ > > Minneapolis Issues Forum - A Civil City Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy > > Post messages to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest option, and more: > > http://e-democracy.org/mpls > > > > _______________________________________ > Minneapolis Issues Forum - A Civil City Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy > Post messages to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest option, and more: > http://e-democracy.org/mpls _______________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A Civil City Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest option, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
