[mou] Snowy Eg. Kandi. Co.

2006-04-15 Thread Randy Frederickson
On 4/14 I observed 3 snowy egrets, together, in Kandiyohi county. The birds were on the downside of the spillway where Shokapee Creek leaves Swan Lake. To get to this location, go north of the town of Pennock 4-5 mi (don't have a map in front of me) and then about 2 miles west on county 27. Also

[mou] sharp-shinned hawk in Cook Co.

2006-04-15 Thread Jim Carol Tveekrem
We saw our first sharpie yesterday afternoon. The dozens of juncos and pine siskins at our feeders scattered, the hawk perched briefly in an aspen, showing a light chest/belly, and we barely got a good enough look at it as it flew through a row of spruces to figure out what it was - small, gray

[mou] Wood Lake Nature Center

2006-04-15 Thread alyssa
This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --=_NextPart_000_0008_01C66097.12C1B250 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable The MOU Youth Birding Club (leaders Mike Alt and Bob Holtz) went birding = at Wood Lake Nature Center in

[mou] Error on Muskrat...

2006-04-15 Thread alyssa
This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --=_NextPart_000_0014_01C66097.556E2D90 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable The Muskrat was swimming, not singing! My apoligies~ Alyssa DeRubeis

[mou] Swainson's Hawk - NW Fillmore County

2006-04-15 Thread Paul Pedersen
I saw a Swainson's Hawk in NW Fillmore County today south of Spring Valley. Paul Pedersen

[mou] Great-tailed Grackle - Wright County

2006-04-15 Thread steve pulles
This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --=_NextPart_000_003A_01C660BC.3EE63430 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Today I searched around Pelican Lake in Wright County with my family. = At 4:30 PM I discovered an adult male

[mou] First Todd Co. Record-GWF Goose

2006-04-15 Thread Benjamin Fritchman
Earlier this spring, I noticed a decent movement of Greater White-fronted Geese in Minnesota and thought this would be the year for them to finally show up in Todd County. Up until now there has been no record. I thought my chance to find some was over this spring because it seemed the peak

[mou] Flight song of Song Sparrow-Wood Lake

2006-04-15 Thread Alt, Mark
As Alyssa noted in her earlier post, We observed from close range (40 = feet) a Song Sparrow lift off from the dry sedge at water's edge, fly up = to about 25 feet high, then drop its legs, spread its wings, fanned open = its tail and with a buzzy hovering flight, that let it fall very slowly, =

[mou] Carlos Avery

2006-04-15 Thread Andrew Longtin
This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --=_NextPart_000_000D_01C660D1.E550FFC0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Took a run through through Carlos Avery this morning at sun up.. Saw that following: Common Loon Pied-billed Grebe