[mou-net] Heads Up

Heads up, north country. Tundra flocks just passed over Milaca. Al Schirmacher Princeton, MN Sent from my iPhone 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] Southern Clay County

Greetings, I was down in Southern clay Co. this morning where the G. Prairie Chickens were active also Snow Geese, Tundra Swans, Northern Harriers, Killdeer, and lots of Canada Geese. Good birding to all, -- Rick Holbrook Fargo, ND N 46°53'07 W 096°48'18 or 46.887527N -96.805079W

[mou-net] Carver County Phoebe, Harris's Sparrow and bugs

Coinciding with the first gnats, flies, and mosquito an Eastern Phoebe was singing from a treetop along the east shore of Rapids Lake. Other arrivals to the area today were Canvasback at both Rapids Lake and Assumption Lake, a single Blue-winged Teal at Rapids Lake, many American Coot at

[mou-net] banded birds

Yesterday morning (Friday the 16th) we banded 74 birds at Carpenter Nature Center. 46 were Dark-eyed Juncos and 14 were American Tree Sparrows. I figured they had been down in Iowa and are on their way to the far north. Tom Bell Grey Cloud Island 5868 Pioneer Rd. S. St. Paul Park, MN 55071

[mou-net] Fwd: www.birddigiscoper.com:How to Be a Better Birder!

Original Message Subject:www.birddigiscoper.com:How to Be a Better Birder! Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012 01:31:58 + From: Bill wmbru...@gmail.com To: wbru...@q.com Bill has sent you a link to a blog: Blog: www.birddigiscoper.com Post: How to Be a Better

[mou-net] Waconia, Carver County

I had a male Eastern Bluebird work his way across the yard today, a big surprise for me as we are on the shore of Lake Waconia in a primarily wooded lot FOY and new yard bird, too! The rookery on the island in Lake Waconia is quite active with Great Blue Herons, haven't seen any Egrets

[mou-net] Saturday, March 17, 82 degrees!

I spent a few hours today at Wild River State Park in Chisago County.  When I arrived at the visitor center, there was a noisy red-shouldered hawk soaring low over the parking lot.  I had to wait an hour but the the Carolina wren finally made an appearance giving a nice look.  Lots of fox

[mou-net] Gr White-fronted Geese, Harris's Sparrow in Duluth

Al Loken called ~4:30 this afternoon to report at least 8 Greater White-fronted Geese were present at Mud Lake in Duluth, which is a backwater of the St Louis River in the Gary-New Duluth neighborhood. This species is only Casual to Rare-Regular in NE Minn, and this sighting fits in with

[mou-net] Coon Rapids Dam

The last three mornings at the dam have been filled with waterfowl at the Coon Rapids Dam. I've seen many ring necked ducks, a single hooded merganser,several common mergansers and common goldeneye, at least two canvasbacks and half a dozen redheads. Today I saw my first loon of the season

[mou-net] Waterfowl, Meadowlarks, Red-tails and Cranes - Polk County

The Agassiz Valley Water Resources impoundment east of Warren Minnesota was full of waterfowl today. Hundreds of Canada Geese, nearly a hundred Cackling Geese, a handful of Snow Geese, dozens of Trumpeter Swans, Bald Eagles, Western Meadowlarks, displaying Sharp-tailed Grouse, Red-tailed Hawk,

[mou-net] Bald Eagles

Driving through Jay Cooke State Park today I noticed several bald eagles flying over. I pulled over on a rise near where Hwy 210 joins Jay Cooke Road at 12:25 and over the next thirty minutes counted 52 bald eagles, 6 red-tailed hawks, and 5 sharp-shinned hawks fly over. Later, while casually

[mou-net] Red Tailed on nest

In Fillmore county. @ Goethrite WMA. Also a snapping turtle crossing from a stream to a small pond. 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] St. Patrick's Day birding, Goodhue and Dakota C.

While the huge flocks of large waterfowl have dispersed from Lake Byllesby and the hoped-for huge flocks of shorebirds seem yet to arrive, there were nice assortments of previously reported duck species at the Randolph Industrial Park and the 180th St. Marsh. Interestingly enough, both places had