[mou-net] Orchard Oriole - Anoka County

We had a first spring male Orchard Oriole visiting our grape jelly feeder all weekend. Char Wenger Coon Rapids, MN 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] From here and there

Summer tanager north of Easton in Faribault County. Canada goose goslings galore. Pair of Caspian terns flying over Geneva Lake in Freeborn County. Bad weather made for great warbling on Saturday. Al Batt Hartland Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net

[mou-net] Crane Lake, N.St. Louis Co.

Spent time on Crane for opening fishing and was able to do a lot of hiking and birding. Somewhat slow, but a couple surprises for me as well. Nine warbler sp. with N. Parulas, BLack-throated Greens, Yellow-rumps and Pine most abundant. No Hermit Thrushes but a great look and song from a Wood

[mou-net] Hastings backyard

My Husband recently had major spine surgery and then a week later, came down with an infection in a hip that he's never had problems with before. He spent a total of 13 days in the hospital and has been having a difficult recovery. So, to try and keep his mind off of his pain, I set up our 600mm

[mou-net] Detroit Lakes update

I spoke with the homeowner this morning who has been seeing the W. tanager. He said that from 6-7am he sat on the patio (as he does every morning) watching the birds and drinking his coffee. He DID NOT see either tanager, nor the orchard oriole that was present Saturday and Sunday. He did

[mou-net] Yard birds

Backyard surprises continue every day. Yesterday it was a Tennessee Warbler competing with the orioles and catbirds for the grape jelly. This morning it was TWO Red-breasted Nuthatches, one on the bay window feeder, the other on a nearby peanut feeder. John Nelson Good Thunder MN Join

[mou-net] Birding about the metro

On Saturday we had our first Canada Goose gooslings! On Sunday my neighbor's grand daughter came over and presented me with a handful of morels from their yard and the park. Hu god! I checked and the oak leaves are bigger than mouse ears. Tonight I will check my yard. Steve Weston

[mou-net] Possible Eurasian Collared-Dove-Lake Nokomis, Mpls

Yesterday evening at about 8:00 I saw what I'm pretty sure must have been a Eurasian Collared-Dove on the east side of L. Nokomis (closest cross street E 53rd St). I was walking the pedestrian path and a mid-sized overall light gray bird flew through the park area, alarm/flight calling,

[mou-net] Ground-feeding warblers

The ground-feeding of canopy warblers under elm trees continues: This morning Lake Nokomis's sidewalks included large numbers of yellow, palm, yellow-rumped, tennessee, black-and-white, magnolia, and chestnut-sided all feeding on the pavement. Within the past couple of days I've also seen

Re: [mou-net] Ground-feeding warblers

Here is some information I received from an entomologist friend about what the warblers might be eating: When you first wrote tiny gray insects, I thought of springtails, http://www.extension.umn.edu/distribution/horticulture/M1305.html. But when you said associated with elm, they are

[mou-net] lunch today

15 species seen during lunch at the kitchen table. Indigo Bunting, Red-breasted Nuthatch, Baltimore Oriole, Rose-breasted Grosbeak and Magnolia Warbler were highlights. Bill -- O. William (Bill) Bruins 1538 Eleventh Avenue NE Rochester, MN 55906 Telephone: Five Zero Seven - Two Eight One -

[mou-net] Crosby park

Just got back from a few hours at Crosby Park in St PAul. The trail is pretty wet and the trees have definitely leafed out in the past 3 days but there were still birds to be seen. Warblers were staying higher up toward the canopy making for more difficult views but still had 12 species on a

Re: [mou-net] [mnbird] Ground-feeding warblers

I found the same phenomenon on 52d Street between Nicollet and Lyndale on Sunday. Feeding on the curb and in the street were Blackburnian Cape May (male and female) Yellow Palm Nashville Yel-rumped Tenn As well as Chipping Sparrows and White-crowned sparrows Warren -Original Message-

[mou-net] Ramsey County - Orchard Oriole

Hello - I birded at Long Lake Regional Park in New Brighton (Ramsey County) this morning. It was very cold and I forgot my gloves. Between 6am and 8am there was fairly good warbler activity. I finally picked up Magnolia. I also got a very nice up close and personal look at Eastern Kingbird.

Re: [mou-net] Ground-feeding warblers - springtails

Thanks Cyndi for your work! I checked these two links and did a Google Image search of springtail and that's a very good match with what I saw! And the size (1/16-1/8) is also a match. (The other link was not; they were not larvae.) These tiny insects reminded me of an oblong version of those

[mou-net] RB Woodpecker.

This is new to me, but may be commonplace to others. I have a Red-bellied WPecker coming regular to my Oriole feeder and getting his fill of oranges and grape jelly... is this a common event? -- Hackensack/Longville Cass County, Mn Join or Leave mou-net:

[mou-net] White-faced Ibis, Trumpeter Swan - Lyon County

3 White-faced Ibis, and a nesting pair of Trumpeter Swan were observed this evening at Black Rush Lake, Lyon County. Also, I heard a sound I am unfamiliar with. It was a repeated Whrrirrr note with a slight hint of an owl quality. This was heard from thick in the marsh, two individuals were

[mou-net] Le Sueur County/ Lark Sparrow observation

I went down to Le Sueur County last night (5/15) out of curiousity because I don't seem to hear many reports from this county and wanted to see what was migrating through. Most of my birding was in the vacinity to the near east and south of the city of Le Sueur. I was only out for a little over