August 30, 2009
4:00 - 5:30 pm
I checked White Bear Lake and Snail Lake Regional Park, for shorebirds today.
There is still good habitat at both locations, but there were only Killdeer at
White Bear Lake and no shorebirds at Snail Lake. Here are a few other birds
that I did observe.
White
In the woods along the Mississippi River (east of the River Parkway, stone
stairway entrance near 33rd Street) this morning I found my first Swainson's
Thrush of the spring. Migrants were few, only one warbler seen (Magnolia) and
Blue-Headed and Philadelphia Vireo (one each). Plenty of
Have had an impressive wave of robins all morning. Over half are
immature. Numbers are hard to estimate but perhaps 30-40 with an
occasional Blue Jay mixed in. I have not had any robins all summer
nor jays. The Cooper's family was calling again this morning also
after a brief respite
About 5:30PM Sunday afternoon we were able to refind a jaeger off the beach
house on Park Point. For the first 20 minutes of observing the bird we were
hampered by the extreme distance it was from us, although with near calm water
it was fairly easy to observe it continuously. During this
When I volunteered at the MOU Booth at the Fair on Saturday evening, there were
a couple of questions from the public about whether the robins had already
migrated since they seem pretty scarce lately. We assured people that they were
still around but that their feeding habits had perhaps made
Is anyone else experiencing a bit of a slow migration? Warbler and vireo
species are light, most represented by 1-3 individuals; shorebirds are
virtually non-existent here in Mille Lacs Sherburne Counties.
Today had eight warbler species during 2+ hours of walking (two locations),
no more
Our annual MOU Mille Lacs trip is coming up on Saturday, October 17th at
7:30 AM.
Typically we spend the majority of our time along the western lakefront - we
may also venture over to Kathio State Park (sticker required) or check the
northern Aitkin portion of the lake. This trip is known
On Saturday Kristin Snobeck and I went down to the Old Cedar Bridge and I had a
pretty good day. Once again we saw the young white tailed deer off the
boardwalk and Kristin got some pretty good pictures. We also found a snapping
turtle about the size of a quarter struggling to make it to the
Went to the parade in Pierz and after wended our way home to Brainerd thru
various locations in Mille Lacs, Morrison and Crow Wing Counties. In about 4
hours of travel we saw only one Robin
-Original Message-
From: Minnesota Birds [mailto:mou-...@lists.umn.edu] On Behalf Of
To MOU members:
Your Board is meeting on Saturday, September 19 at Wood Lake Nature
Center
(6710 Lake Shore Drive in Richfield) at 1 p.m. All meetings are open and you
are invited. Do you have a topic or concern you would like the Board to
discuss and possibly act on? If yes! Do you want
I didn't count but, early this morning just before sun up there were flocks
of Robins heading south so it seems they are on the move south.
- Original Message -
From: Carol Crust cmcr...@brainerd.net
To: MOU-NET@LISTS.UMN.EDU
Sent: Monday, August 31, 2009 6:46 PM
Subject: Re: [mou-net]
This is a huge USFWS research program. I have not spent much time on this
website, but there is a lot here. They are looking for volunteers to work
from home logging old archived data into a database. (some are very old
records) I would think that records from MN would be very useful to
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