[mou-net] Communal Roosting of Eastern Bluebirds

Recently I photographed and video taped Eastern Bluebirds gathering and roosting for the night as temperatures hovered around zero. If you would like to read more about this and watch the video, here is the link to my journal entry:

[mou-net] Plymouth Crossbills

I checked this morning about 11:00A.M. for the White-Winged Crossbills, and found them at the Twin West Chamber of Commerce building, in Plymouth. The flock I found, had about 20 heavily feeding birds. The address of the building is:10700 Old County Rd. 15. I haven't seen

[mou-net] Additional MOU Field Trip

We have a late addition to the list of MOU Field Trips for 2009: February 21 - SE MN(Winona County) with Carol Schumacher - Birders will meet at 8am and bird into the early afternoon. This is designed for those who have not birded this area(including novice birders) and for intermediate level

[mou-net] Reminder - MN Breeding Bird Atlas training session

There is a classroom training session for interested Breeding Bird Atlas surveyors on Wednesday evening, Feb 4th, from 7pm - 9pm, at the Bell Museum in Minneapolis. There are still a few spaces available if you have not yet registered. The session is free, but we need your name for check-in

[mou-net] Northern Flicker

Found a dead Northern Flicker in the 3500 block of 38th Ave S in Minneapolis this morning. Does not appear to be predated or otherwise injured. Crosby Farm birds seen along the ski trails over the weekend; Red bellied Wood pecker, Downy Woodpecker, Hairy Woodpecker, Pileated, Barred owl

[mou-net] RFI- birding in SanDiego

Would greatly appreciate any birding info or a contact person who leads day trips for SanDiego county the last week of February. Thanks for your help- debra.d...@allina.com This message contains information that is confidential and may be privileged. Unless you are the addressee (or

[mou-net] Evening Grosbeak - Carver county

While working from home today, I had a female Evening Grosbeak appear at my feeder at 11:45am and 12:15pm. If it appears again I will re-post. Regards. 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] Hoary Redpoll (Anoka County)

? Hello all, Well I have been In the Caribean This past week which I added some new birds to my life list.? But the best treat was this morning (2-2-09)I woke up and before heading off to work I looked out to the normal flock of Common Redpolls and American Goldfinches with a mixed

[mou-net] redpolls, Crosby Farm Park, St. Paul

Along the river path, just south of the wig-wam frame that someone has constructed, there was a small flock of redpolls sunning in the top of a spruce. I say sunning because there was no feeding activity in evidence, just a vocalizing soft enough that it might have been missed, had I not stopped