[mou-net] New non-raptor migrants, plus many new non-raptors up north!

I counted raptors this past Thursday and Friday here in Duluth, and had some good flights of raptors coming through. In addition to the many raptors tallied (899 on Thursday and 605 on Friday), there have been several new arrivals over the past few days. Below are my two biggest days of hawk

[mou-net] Carver County

Highlights yesterday on a quiet dreary morning were 18 Common Loons on Rapids Lake(1 additional at Chevalle wetlands), 1 each of Golden-crowned Kinglet, Yellow-rumped Warbler, Field Sparrow at Rapids Lake MVNWR, 49 Bonaparte's Gull, and 17 Franklin's Gull in rural Carver County. Highlights

[mou-net] New raptor migrants, plus many new non-raptors up north (pictures too)!

Shoot! I meant to label my last email with raptors and non-raptors... pictures are in that last email too. Enjoy this gloomy day... April showers bring May flowers; we still have a little ways to go! :-) Good birdwatching, Erik Bruhnke Duluth, MN -- *NATURALLY AVIAN* - Bird photography and

[mou-net] Lake Como - St. Paul

The ice has completely disappeared from Lake Como in the last 24 hours, and waterbirds have been plentiful this morning, including at least 10 Common Loons, Pied-billed Grebe, cormorants, and 10 duck species (Mallard, Wood Duck, Shoveler, Red-breasted Mergansers, Ruddy Ducks, Lesser Scaup,

[mou-net] Loons still at Lake Hiawatha

An active day today at Lake Hiawatha in south Minneapolis, 28th Ave side. Three Bald Eagles sitting in a tree on the north side of the lake. Only a few Redbreasted Mergansers seen. But, the Loons were plentiful and active. Images can been see at link below. Cheers, John Anderson

[mou-net] Rice Co Sandhill Cranes 4-5-11

Here is a link to a short video showing a Canada Goose attacking and chasing a pair of Sandhill Cranes. I observed this interaction on April 5th in Rice County on the south side of New Prague Blvd, 1/2 mile west of the Jct of 19 and Panama Ave (where 19 turns south toward Lonsdale). I thought it

[mou-net] 1000+ Bohemian Waxwings in Duluth

I just got a call from Dudley Edmondson who reported that there is a flock of 1000+ Bohemian Waxwings in the Lakeside neighborhood of Duluth, stretching from 43rd Avenue East to 60th Avenue East. I have also heard second-hand reports of hundreds of waxwings during the past 2-3 days in the

[mou-net] Birding N Hennepin County

The ice is out on French Lake in N Hennepin county (Diamond Lake is still mostly frozen), there were 16 soecies of waterfowl including all 3 mergs, Cans, Redhead, Lsr Scaup, Green- and Blue-Winged Teal, Shovelers, Rn Duck. More exciting was spotting a pair of Sandhill Cranes walking through

[mou-net] Mountain Bluebird - Stevens County 4/10/2011

Hi, Linda Sparling just called to report that Kim Eckert had just found a male Mountain Bluebird on Stevens County Highway 1, 0.2 mile south of State Highway 28. It was at the south end of a small grove of trees, and was associating with a female Eastern Bluebird. Also observed by Linda,

Re: [mou-net] Lake Como - St. Paul

We were at Como Lake between 1:00 and 2:00.  In addition to those,  we saw a  waterfowl that we had trouble identifying.  It was in the center of the lake and we saw only one.  It was grebe-like, with a longer  neck than a pied-billed so we think it was differnet than what Scott reported.  The

[mou-net] Pope Co. swans, Stearns Co. egret

180 tundra swans, 8 white-fronted geese, 18 scaup (they didn't look great-er) and 17 canvasbacks were in a wetland 4.5 miles west of Sauk Centre along Hwy. 28 in Pope Co. this afternoon. Driving on I-94 a great egret flew over the highway about 1.2 mile west of the Melrose exit - Stearns Co.

[mou-net] West-central Minnesota waterfowl

A group of birders consisting of John and Chris Hockema, Dedrick Benz, Dave Bartkey, Ben Fritchman, Shawn Conrad, Alex Watson, and myself held its third annual Wang Chung Waterfowl Weekend this weekend in west-central Minnesota, with a focus on the four counties of the windowpane (Douglas,

[mou-net] Murphy Hanrehan

Hiking at Murphy-Hanrehan today saw a wonderful array of songbirds, waterbirds and raptors including chickadees nuthatches cardinals cedar waxwings tree swallows belted kingfisher turkey vultures merlins or sharp-shinned hawks mallard ducks canada geese cormorant lovely pair of hooded mergansers

[mou-net] Cattle Egret in Grant Co; Tundra Swans in Traverse Co

In addition to yesterday's very early Am Avocet and Marbled Godwits in Lac Qui Parle and Big Stone Co's and today's Mountain Bluebird in Stevens Co (already reported on MOU-net), the Minn Birding Weekends group had 2 other sightings of note today, April 10. - An early Cattle Egret near

[mou-net] Am. Bittern

I know its not too big of news, but an Am. Bittern was seen in Lyon County @ Black Rush Lake (near Camden SP) on Saturday (9th). Roger Schroeder 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] NEEDED: MOU YMP kit transportation

I have completed what is likely my last Youth Mentorship program for a while. If someone from the metro area is ever near Marshall, MN this season, would you please consider transporting the MOU YMP birding kit to Bob Holtz? I do not foresee getting to the twin cities until mid- June. If