[mou-net] MBW update

2015-11-25 Thread Kim R Eckert
The MBWbirds website (http://mbwbirds.com ) was updated this evening, and it includes the registration status of the 2016-17 Minnesota Birding Weekends and Weeks. Several MBWs already filled up on the opening day of registrations, November 16, when nearly 400 registrations

[mou-net] Carver County Townsend's Solitaire

2015-11-25 Thread John Cyrus
This afternoon in the Cedar between Parley Lake and the Grimm Rd. picnic area at Carver Park Reserve, I saw a Townsend's Solitaire. Initially I believe I startled him as I walked around a bend in the trail as it climbed the hill from Parley Lake near the picnic area. I saw a large thrush fly

[mou-net] December Program - Audubon Chapter of Minneapolis

2015-11-25 Thread Madeleine Linck
All are invited to the Audubon Chapter's program on Tuesday, December 1st at 7pm at Beth El Synagogue, 5225 Barry St. W, St. Louis Park. Jim Egge, long-time ACM Board member, will present on Bird Migration, focusing on some of the latest research on how several species are believed to navigate. C

[mou-net] Red Phalarope

2015-11-25 Thread MOU admin
(Posted by Wayne Feder via moumn.org) Kim Eckhert has viewed a photo of the phalarope I posted about earlier today and tells me it is a red phalarope and not a red-necked phalarope as I initially thought. Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http

[mou-net] red--necked phalarope

2015-11-25 Thread MOU admin
(Posted by Wayne Feder via moumn.org) I found a late red-necked phalarope at the Wells sewage pond this morning. It was swimming in the open water near the berm on the eastern-most of the two ponds located on the north side of the highway. Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-b

[mou-net] Tundra x Trumpeter?

2015-11-25 Thread Gerald Hoekstra
If you subscribe to Minnesota Birding FB site, you've already seen these photos, but for those who do not follow FB, I thought I'd post them here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/47388339@N06/22674960474/in/datetaken/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/47388339@N06/22676188093/in/datetaken/ I photographe