[mou-net] Close encounters, St. Louis/Lake counties

I had pretty good luck today getting quite close to a number of species (not only birds) I usually can't get too close to. I started on Superior National Forest road 424 (New Tomahawk Road), east of the town of Babbitt. The first thing I saw was a Porcupine; unfortunately it was dead. A few

[mou-net] Sax-Zim/Duluth this past weekend

Hello, Sorry for the delay but as I left Duluth on Saturday my parents called and let me know my sister was at the hospital having a baby and they were on their way into town. Then I got sick Sunday and am finally up and moving around today. Saturday 2/28 Duluth: Northern Hawk-owl at

[mou-net] Red-winged Blackbird ~ Dakota Co.

This afternoon I enjoyed seeing my first spring migrant a male Red-winged Blackbird singing on territory from a cattail marsh along Black Dog Road in Dakota County. For me here in the Metro this is about a week earlier than usual and a welcome sight as a harbinger of what Spring has to offer.

[mou-net] White-winged Crossbill fly over

I just added a new Yard / Hennepin County bird, I just had a flyover of a White-winged Crossbill while I was walking out to the mail box.. -- Andrew Longtin Corcoran (Hennepin Co.) Minnesota See my WEB pages at: www.birderguy.com Email: birder...@comcast.net Hawk Ridge Bird

[mou-net] redpolls, siskins, ww crossbills, Carpenter Nature Ctr., Hastings

Some lucky first-graders got to enjoy the last Winter Birds program of the season at Carpenter today. Though not among their target species for our little walk, redpolls and siskins showed up for the fun. Staff members also reported that ww crossbills, heard rather than seen during the walks, had

[mou-net] Horned Lark Harbingers

And, speaking of harbingers of Spring, Horned Larks are indeed being seen state-wide. On Tuesday (3/3), we traveled across the state following a diagonal line northwest (on the less heavily trafficked roads) from Goodhue county in the southeast to our home county Otter Tail in the west-

Re: [mou-net] Horned Lark Harbingers

Horned larks are all over Olmsted County (Rochester area) Terry -Original Message- From: Minnesota Birds [mailto:mou-...@lists.umn.edu] On Behalf Of Dan Sandy Thimgan Sent: Wednesday, March 04, 2009 5:38 PM To: MOU-NET@LISTS.UMN.EDU Subject: [mou-net] Horned Lark Harbingers And,

[mou-net] Gray Partridges -Dakota Cty

Hello Birders, Tonight was my 3rd attempt to see these little beauties, and I struck out. I was present at the corner of 180th St. Joan Ave. from about 5:45 to 6:15 but saw no birds. I did see some Horned Larks on my way in along 180th. No other birders were there. Last Wednesday evening I also