[mou-net] [mou-rba] Duluth RBA 8/6/10
-RBA *Minnesota *Duluth/North Shore *August 6, 2010 *MNDU1008.06 -Birds mentioned Greater Scaup Lesser Scaup Bufflehead American White Pelican Great Egret Philadelphia Vireo Orange-crowned Warbler Bay-breasted Warbler -Transcript Hotline: Minnesota, Duluth/North Shore Date: August 6, 2010 Sponsor: Minnesota Ornithologists' Union (MOU) Reports: (218) 834-2858 Compiler: Jim Lind (jsl...@frontiernet.net) This is the Duluth Birding Report for August 5th, 2010 sponsored by the Minnesota Ornithologists' Union. A GREAT EGRET was found by Karl Bardon on the 4th at Miller Creek near 21st Avenue West in Duluth. Karl also saw early GREATER SCAUP, LESSER SCAUP, and BUFFLEHEAD at Interstate Island and Hearding Island earlier in the week, as well as migrant PHILADELPHIA VIREO at Southworth Marsh and BAY-BREASTED WARBLER at Wisconsin Point. He saw seven AMERICAN WHITE PELICANS on the 4th at Interstate Island. A flock of ten AMERICAN WHITE PELICANS was seen on the 4th at Agate Bay in Two Harbors. Jan Green saw an early ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER on August 2nd along the Old North Shore Road in Duluth Township. The next scheduled update of this report will be on Thursday, August 12th. The telephone number of the Duluth Rare Bird Alert is 218-834-2858. Information about bird sightings may be left following the recorded message. The Duluth Birding Report is sponsored and funded by the Minnesota Ornithologists' Union (MOU) as a service to its members. For more information on the MOU, either write us c/o the Bell Museum, e-mail us at m...@moumn.org, or visit the MOU web site at moumn.org. Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
[mou-net] Tufted Titmouse - Fillmore, Acadian Flycatcher - Houston
Sorry for the delayed report, I had limited internet access this week. On 8/3, I found an Acadian Flycatcher singing at Beaver Creek Valley State Park at the end of the tent campground road. There was a Lousiana Waterthrush singing near that road where the RV sites end. As I camped at that end tent site, I also heard a Barred Owl on and off during the night. Additionally, on 8/3, I found 3 Tufted Titmice at the scenic overlook just outside of Rushford on 30. On 8/2, I could not find Common Moorhen at the sites in McCleod or Sibley counties, but there were a couple of Black-crowned Night-Herons at Sand Lake in Sibley as well as a few Black Terns at the Gaylord sewage ponds. Other than that, birding was kind of slowish. Dickcissels at the Medelia sewage ponds (Watonwan) and Willow Flycatcher at Walnut WMA (Faribault), both on 8/2, were other highlights. The Jirik sod farms were absolutely dead yesterday afternoon. -- Shawn Conrad www.itascacnfbirding.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
[mou-net] [mou-rba] MOU RBA 6 August 2010
-RBA *Minnesota *Minnesota Statewide *August 6, 2010 *MNST1008.06 -Birds mentioned Greater Scaup Bufflehead Swainson's Hawk American Avocet Bonaparte's Gull Caspian Tern Philadelphia Vireo Sprague's Pipit Bay-breasted Warbler Evening Grosbeak -Transcript Hotline: Minnesota Statewide Date: August 6, 2010 Sponsor: Minnesota Ornithologists' Union (MOU) http://moumn.org Reports: (763) 780-8890 Compiler: Anthony Hertzel (r...@moumn.org) This is the Minnesota Birding Report for August 5th, 2010. A possible SPRAGUE'S PIPIT was reported singing in Becker County on the 2nd. The location was along the north side of county road 50, less than half a mile west of the Hubbard County line. This is just east of Two Inlets Lake. On July 31st, Denny Martin reported an AMERICAN AVOCET in Houston County from the overlook about four miles south of Brownsville on state highway 26. Another avocet was found by Sue Morton on August 1st at Cory Lake in Lac qui Parle County. Interesting was the pair of SWAINSON'S HAWKS reported from Snail Lake in northern Ramsey County on August 2nd. The birds were calling from the northwestern side of the lake in the Snail Lake Regional Park. An early GREATER SCAUP was found by Karl Bardon in Duluth on the 4th at Miller Creek near 21st Avenue West. Other reported fall migrants include BUFFLEHEAD, BONAPARTE'S GULL, CASPIAN TERN, PHILADELPHIA VIREO, BAY-BREASTED WARBLER, and EVENING GROSBEAK. The next scheduled update of this tape is Thursday, August 12th, 2010. Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
[mou-net] Carver County
Rapids Lake MVNWR was fairly entertaining with a nice surge of Yellow Warbler active again along the river this morning. I counted 12+. A beautiful Prothonotary Warbler gave me the best look I have had of one all year within 20 feet . He was hanging out with 2 Blue-winged Warbler and a couple Redstart just north of the first outlet channel on the northeast side of Rapids Lake. The only definite migrant of the morning was a Black and White Warbler, though I suspect some of the Yellow Warbler were migrants.A Lark Sparrow was also still hanging around along the road leading to the visitors center with some Vesper Sparrow.Both a juvenile and adult Great Horned Owl were out at the refuge .They were both in same area I usually see them, north of the visitors center along the trail just south of Carver Rapids.I wouldn't have noticed the juvenile if he hadn't flown closer to investigate me. There were some Caspian Terns again on Rice Lake along with Pelican and Cormorant but no gulls. Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
[mou-net] State Fair booth
If you are having any doubts about your ability to staff the MOU booth, trust me on this one - no experience necessary! No one has done the booth we are setting up and it is easy as pie to staff. You don't need to be a great or even above par or even below par birder - you just have to like birds and talk with folks who want to talk about birds. The visitors do practically all of the talking. Odds are you will be co-staffing with someone who complements you exactly so that no matter what questions anyone can come up with, you can throw out an answer of some sort. My favorite answer is I don't know! and actually for most I don't. But being a birder, I can come up with possible leads for them to find the answer - like the MOU web site, or the bird books at the table, or the other guy at the booth. The new spinning wheel part of our booth will have bird pics - common easy birds for the most part - and the folks spin the wheel to win a bird tattoo or a poster or something else. Not a very bird intellectual job at the base level. This is however not to say that you experts out there would be bored. Most folks love to hear the details and deeper look and understanding of birds they have seen or have questions about. They might whistle a bird call or give a vague description that with your years of experience can figure out. They love it and quite honestly I did to for the times I worked it out. When I do the booth, I love putting tattoos on the kids or adults that come by and the only requirement before was for them to say the name of the bird. For many it was the first time they had ever said the words. It is a huge joy to see their face when they get Ruby-throated Hummingbird out instead of just hummingbird. You make the booth by being whoever you are - as a person who likes birds. That is actually the only requirement. Except maybe a willingness to be with other birder or folks who might be interested. And perhaps it could be a requirement to have fun, to revel in connecting with a child about birds, to give a eager ear to someone's bird story, to let someone be heard about a bird they saw, to people watch till your eyes get tired. OK so that was more than just one possible requirement. Trust me here, you know more about birds than you think or you are more capable of connecting with other birders than you think. Every time I have staffed the bird booth at the fair, I have at least one life experience that I get to savor and tell others about for years. I get to smile again about it. I get to feel warm again about it. I get to feel like I give for the sake of giving again and I get to feel like I make a difference in other people's life in my own way - again. Please join me in this experience. I look forward to seeing you there and hearing your stories of your experiences. Not to mention all the new stuff we have added to make our combined experience - visitor and staff - sweet. Did I mention how good this looks on a resumá½³? Here's how: 1 Go_www.google.com_ (http://www.google.com) 2. Click Sign In on the top right hand corner of your screen. 3. Sign in using mouvolunteer as your email and ilovemou as your password 4. Click the more drop down menu item located at just about the G in Google along the top of your screen. 5. Click Calendar from the drop down menu. 6. You will see a calendar centered on today's date. Scroll through until you get to August 26th 2010 where you will start to see the MOU booth shifts in red. 7. Click on the shift that you want to sign up for. I find that clicking on the actual word Shift 1(or 2 or 3) is the quickest and easiest. 8. Write your name after shift 1, 2, or 3, in the what box at the top of the form. 9. Click save 10. Log out (on top right hand corner of the screen). OR email Jen or Thomas and tell us what shift you want. Jen Vieth: jenni...@carpenternaturecenter.org Thomas Maiello: tho...@angelem.com Thomas Maiello Angel Environmental Management, Inc. Maple Grove, MN Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
[mou-net] Recently fledged Green Herons / Minneapolis
Hi All-- Erika and I found recently fledged Green Herons in the Walker Sculpture Garden near downtown Minneapolis. The birds strolled along the sidewalk and flew into adjacent conifers--certainly odd behavior for a species that normally feeds on fish. Details are in my blog: http://dantallmansbirdblog.blogspot.com dan -- Dan or Erika Tallman Northfield, Minnesota http://sites.google.com/site/tallmanorum http://dantallmansbirdblog.blogspot.com http://picasaweb.google.com/danerika daner...@gmail.com the best shod travel with wet feet Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes --Thoreau Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
[mou-net] Prothonotary Warbler in Wiliam O'Brien State Park, Washington County
I found a beautiful male Prothonotary Warbler near the picnic area by Lake Alice in William O'Brien State Park, northern Washington County this evening, August 6. The bird was across the channel in the trees near and on a jumble of dead tree limbs at the shore line. To get to the spot, go to the picnic area and park at the far end of the lot (near the picnic shelter). There's a trail that goes behind the shelter. Before even 50 paces there's a kiosk talking about spots on the St. Croix that make up part of a national waterway. As you read that kiosk, look up and slightly to your right is a narrow trail down to the river. From there you can see the jumble of dead tree limbs. The bird was in that area. For state listers this is all in MN at this point, the water way being a channel to the St. Croix River. Linda Sparling Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
