free to contact me with questions.
Julian Sellers
Saint Paul
From: Minnesota Birds on behalf of Tom G
<2247eb7407f6-dmarc-requ...@lists.umn.edu>
Sent: Saturday, July 30, 2022 12:11
To: MOU-NET@LISTS.UMN.EDU
Subject: [mou-net] Battle Creek East
Does
escape with quick dives and turns until the
raven broke off the chase. In 2020, a kestrel pair abandoned this nest box
with five eggs. I have suspected that one or both of the kestrels were victims
of a Cooper’s Hawk, but now I’m adding Common Raven to the list of suspects.
Julian Sellers
Well, the highlighting got lost in the translation to MOU-NET. The last "2019"
below is correct. In the original, it was "2017."
Julian
From: Minnesota Birds on behalf of JULIAN SELLERS
Sent: Sunday, May 2, 2021 12:55
To: MOU-NET@LI
I made an obvious error in my posting. See the highlighted correction below.
Julian
Last year I made charts of the population trends of a number of species from
the BBS results for all of the years available—1966 to 2017. The BBS web site
now contains results for the years 1966 to 2019. (It’s
anyone explain it?
Julian Sellers
Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net
Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
During the pandemic, the MOU encourages you to stay safe, practice social
distancing, and continue to bird responsibly.
Minnesota and North
America. The county should adjust the park boundary to include this tract
instead of selling it for development. For more information, and to take
action, go to tinyurl.com/77acres.
Julian Sellers
Saint Paul
Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou
I observed a Loggerhead Shrike today near Division Street and St. Croix Trail.
I arrived at 11:20 to see if kestrels are using the nest box across Division
Street from the Bison Prairie parking lot. In two hours, I did not see any
kestrels. I did, however, see a Loggerhead Shrike along the no
There could well be multiple factors. I will just add that the "distinct
inflection point around 1996" noted by Val Landwehr happened at about the time
that large numbers of hackberry trees, planted after the demise of the elms,
reached maturity.
Julian
From: M
I think hackberries play a role. I don't know when the cities began planting
hackberry trees on boulevards, but I think it was not many decades ago. Most
of the trees do not look very old. Did large crops of hackberries begin to
appear within the last 10 or 15 years?
On the 2008 St. Paul (No
discovered it.
Julian
From: Minnesota Birds on behalf of JULIAN SELLERS
Sent: Monday, June 19, 2017 12:44 PM
To: MOU-NET@LISTS.UMN.EDU
Subject: [mou-net] Winter Wren, Ramsey County
Birding this morning with Clay Christensen and other friends, we heard a Winter
Birding this morning with Clay Christensen and other friends, we heard a Winter
Wren sing several times in Reservoir Woods Park in Roseville. Clay first heard
it just south of the wooden overlook with benches along the Trout Creek Trail,
west of Dale Street. The coordinates are approximately 4
I should have noted that the bison will return to their summer home at Belwin
on May 20th, along with a crowd of spectators. That might be a good day not to
go birding in that area.
Julian
From: Minnesota Birds on behalf of JULIAN SELLERS
Sent: Friday
Street, across from the
Bison prairie and the bison observation platform. Although kestrels have been
hanging out in that area, the nest box is not occupied. At about 9:45, I
re-found the mockingbird farther east, near the northeast corner of the bison
prairie. I did not hear it sing.
Julian
A resident of the area has been seeing the bird for more than a month. He
thinks it has a broken wing. He has tried to capture it, intending to take it
to the Wildlife Rehab Center, but couldn't get close enough to it. He has seen
it flutter straight up about 16 inches. It has been feeding i
At 11:40 this morning, a Sora ran from the boulevard grass across the sidewalk
and onto the shrub-covered embankment along the west side of the parking lot
for Macalester College's Janet Wallace Fine Arts Center. This is in the block
of Cambridge Street between Lincoln Avenue and Amherst Street
Friends and I found an adult male Golden-winged Warbler in Lake Elmo Park
Reserve, central Washington County, this morning. According to Janssen's Birds
in Minnesota, this is a bit early for fall migration and a bit south of the
breeding range.
JulianSt. Paul
Perhaps 20 to 30 years ago, one of the leaders of the Twin Cities raptor
community (Bud Tordoff, I believe) presented a program about Peregrine Falcons
to a downtown St. Paul firm where my wife was employed. He stated that the
most common prey species identified at the nest box on the Bremer Bu
The prairie areas at the Belwin Conservancy, in Washington County
(http://www.belwin.org/), have a good collection of grassland bird species. On
a St. Paul Audubon field trip this morning, we found Henslow's, Lark,
Grasshopper, and Vesper among 9 sparrow species at the Stagecoach Prairies (see
At about 9:15 this morning, a pair of Merlins flew rapidly (as you would
expect) in a wide circle centered approximately on St. Clair Ave and Amherst
Street, Saint Paul. I first heard one calling from north of St. Clair and
Wheeler, then saw them flying. Upon completing the circle, the loud on
I found a pair of Brown Creepers building a nest in Crosby Farm Park, St.
Paul, on 5/10/1998. On 6/7/1998 I watched as the pair made repeated visits
to the nest with food. I reported this, with a photograph, to the MOU, and
it was included as a new nesting record for Ramsey County in The Loon,
I birded Simon’s Ravine (South St. Paul, Dakota County) with friends this
morning, where a Tufted Titmouse sang loudly and persistently. We first heard
it, then saw it, at 9:00 a.m., approximately 300 meters up the ravine from 19th
Ave N. On our way back down the ravine, it was singing near 19
road from the
Baker Cabin (starting at about 9:30 pm). Fair numbers of warblers in the
woods. Was not able to get into much of the grasslands due to prescribed burns
in progress.
Julian Sellers
Saint Paul
Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net
Archives: http
The date for St. Paul Audubon’s April program (A Bird’s eye View: A
Microscopic Look at Contour Feathers), in the MOU Calendar in the Mar/Apr issue
of Minnesota Birding, is incorrect. The correct date is Thursday, April 9th.
Julian
Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?S
A good portion of them may be coming from Summit Avenue, between Cretin and
Snelling Avenues, in St. Paul. Many hundreds of Robins have been found
feeding on the hackberries there on recent St. Paul CBC counts.
Julian
St. Paul
-Original Message-
From: Bruce Fall
Sent: Thursday, Janu
But see this article in the May-June 2014 issue of Audubon:
http://www.audubonmagazine.org/articles/living/tall-grasses-might-be-key-cutting-birdstrikes.
Some airports are now growing tall grasses, which deter big birds while
providing habitat for smaller birds that are not a hazard for aircraft
In observance of the 100-year anniversary of the death of the last Passenger
Pigeon, the New York Times has published an essay by John Fitzpatrick,
executive director of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. It’s worth reading (at
John Fitzpatrick's op-ed).
Julian
Join or Leave mou-net: http:/
There was a good variety of open-country birds along the northern section of
the Prairie Loop Trail, in the northern part of Afton State Park, this morning,
including numerous Henslow’s Sparrows, some Grasshopper Sparrows, Eastern
Meadowlarks, a few Bobolinks, a pair of Orchard Orioles, and a Be
This morning, I followed a Summer Tanager as it flew low through open woods at
Afton State Park, Washington County. It flew about 30 yards at a time before
stopping briefly on low perches. It was giving its “pit-i-tuck” call the
entire time, which I recorded. I have uploaded an excerpt from t
Here are the responses that I received to the question about bird call apps for
iPhone.
Julian
=
Is the person using it to learn call (Quiz) or call in birds?
The trouble with asking for “an accurate” pitch is that birds have dialects
just like we do and can so
Thanks for your replies. I think the requestor has plenty of good info now.
Julian
From: Julian Sellers
Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2014 2:22 PM
To: MOU-NET@LISTS.UMN.EDU
Subject: [mou-net] iPhone Bird Call App
Passing on a request for info:
“I would like advice to select an iphone app with the
Passing on a request for info:
“I would like advice to select an iphone app with the most accurate pitch of
bird calls. Other secondary info like a picture would be nice for ID, but I am
most interested in good sound replication. I heard a National Geographic bird
app that sounded nice to my u
The social time with refreshments begins at 6:45. A brief chapter meeting
begins at 7:00, followed by the presentation. Right, Gordon?
Julian
-Original Message-
From: G Andersson
Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2013 11:56 AM
To: MOU-NET@LISTS.UMN.EDU
Subject: [mou-net] "Audubon and the
A group went to the Battle Creek Park woods this morning, and did not hear or
see the Kentucky warbler. We did not hang around longer than about 20 minutes
waiting for it to sing, but this bird was a very active singer, so I think it
was not present today. We heard two Mourning Warblers at oth
tucky Warbler, St. Paul
Thanks to the postings by Julian Sellers and Doug Kieser, I was able to get
a
recognizable photo of the Kentucky Warbler. I posted it on MOU's recently
seen gallery:
http://moumn.org/cgi-bin/recent.pl?op=rare
As stated by Doug, this bird was singing persistently and l
I think the link to the sonograms of the probable Kentucky Warbler did not come
through in the email. In case you’re interested, here’s the link:
https://picasaweb.google.com/PicasaJuke/SonogramsOfProbableKentuckyWarblerBattleCreekPark61413?authkey=Gv1sRgCISVx6GtpOavHg
Julian
St. Paul
Join
I forgot two things:
1. I have uploaded a bit of the probable KEWA song to the MOU web site’s audio
gallery.
2. If you go to look for the bird, take mosquito repellent.
Julian
From: Julian Sellers
Sent: Friday, June 14, 2013 5:14 PM
To: MOU-NET
Subject: Probable Kentucky Warbler, St. Paul
On Tuesday, 6/11, and again today, I heard a probable Kentucky Warbler singing
regularly in Battle Creek Park, St. Paul. I’ve marked the location on this
Google map:
https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&oe=UTF8&msa=0&msid=210992007790339495719.0004df23b3a9aa444a01a
.
When I first he
I led a St. Paul Audubon bird walk at Crosby Farm Regional Park this morning.
Highlights:
- A Least Bittern made a brief flight across the marsh between the boardwalk
and the larger lake.
- As we were walking through the open area from the smaller lake to the parking
lot, we heard a Connecticut
Between 9:45 and 10:15 this morning I observed a Northern Mockingbird in the
Bruce Vento Nature Sanctuary in St. Paul. It was hanging around in the rows of
young oaks in the center of the sanctuary, sometimes feeding on the ground,
then it flew to the nearby cottonwoods on the east side of the
Tomorrow’s Saint Paul Audubon field trip to Miesville Ravine and Lake Byllesby
is cancelled due to messy roads near Miesville Ravine and difficulty parking at
Lake Byllesby. This is NOT the MOU field trip led by Kevin Smith.
Julian
Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SU
At 9:45 this morning, there was a Short-eared Owl in the Great Western
Industrial Park off of MN Hwy 56 north of Randolph. I was parked on the first
road to the north when it floated past and landed on a post near the north end
of that road. The roads in the industrial park are paved, so the s
This comes from Patricia Freeman, Scott County Natural Resources and Parks
Planner.
Volunteer to Survey Birds in Scott County
Interested in exploring new landscapes and helping to monitor bird life? Scott
County is seeking volunteers to survey migrants and breeding birds in
ually hear several and see one, but, of course, there are no guarantees.
Julian Sellers
St. Paul
Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net
Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
unsuccessful pass
through a flock of small birds, and zoomed back in the direction from which it
had come.
Julian Sellers
St. Paul
Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net
Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
"Recent Changes in Minnesota Bird Life"
-Original Message-
From: Mary Westra
Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2012 3:19 PM
To: MOU-NET@LISTS.UMN.EDU
Subject: Re: [mou-net] Sparrow workshop
Can anyone refresh my memory of Bob Janssen's topic at tonight's Audabon
monthly meeting in Roseville
I think the general advice in MN is not to mow until at least July 15,
preferably August 1.
Julian
-Original Message-
From: Rick
Sent: Monday, June 25, 2012 3:58 PM
To: MOU-NET@LISTS.UMN.EDU
Subject: Re: [mou-net] Dickcisselsn & meadowlarks SoWashCo
It can be done without hartming th
I led a St. Paul Audubon Birding By Ear field trip to Afton State Park this
morning, having scouted it yesterday morning. I think THE Hooded Warbler has
moved. Yesterday, at 9:00 and again at 11:30, it was singing constantly (the
primary song) at the first main overlook north of the big termin
As I walked through the Tangletown neighborhood of St. Paul near Macalester
College this morning, a Golden-winged Warbler and a Wood Thrush were among the
birds singing.
Julian
St. Paul
Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net
Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/arc
Do they plunge into the water to grab fish, as they do in coastal areas? How
do they survive the trip here? Carp?
Julian
St. Paul
Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net
Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
At 11:30 this morning a shrike was hunting in the Bruce Vento Sanctuary just
east of downtown St. Paul
(http://www.mepartnership.org/sites/LOWERPHALENCREEK/sub_page6.asp). I had
binocs, but without a scope I could not determine the species (I was leaning
Loggerhead). This is the first shrike
Let me clarify a bit. We do not want to stop hay mowing. The Nov/Dec 2009
issue of Audubon magazine ran an article about research in Vermont that
showed that hayfields that were mowed on the typical schedule produced 0.0
fledged Bobolinks per female, whereas fields mowed on a modified schedule
Courthouse Park is southwest of Waseca, not southeast.
Julian
-Original Message-
From: Anthony Hertzel
Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2011 10:07 PM
To: MOU-NET@LISTS.UMN.EDU
Subject: [mou-net] [mou-rba] MOU RBA 26 May 2011
-RBA
*Minnesota
*Minnesota Statewide
*May 26, 2011
*MNST1105.26
Everyone is seeing warblers on or near the ground this year, even canopy
species such as Tennessee and Blackburnian. Here's my theory: with the
late leaf-out, birds are not finding the usual caterpillars (and perhaps
other bugs) in the tree-tops, so they're finding food in the low shrubbery,
If you saw the 12/23 segment of Sven Sundgaard's Simply Science feature on
KARE11, you heard me say that the St. Paul CBC recorded its first Northern
Cardinal in 1959. That's not true. Cardinals were recorded in 1944, the first
year of the St. Paul (North) CBC, and most years since then, albei
I don't think the ID of the Bloomington Chipping Sparrow is as straightforward
as some of the comments have implied. Specifically:
a.. Every photo that shows the breast shows a central spot. It's not
well-defined, but it's not just an artifact of how the feathers are spread.
b.. In the pho
At 5:25 this evening, I heard two flocks of Tundra Swans flying over the
Macalester-Groveland neighborhood of St. Paul (flying southeast). Couldn't see
them. When my wife first heard this sound many years ago, she thought our
neighbor was squeegeeing her windows.
Julian
Join or Leave mo
Birds of Europe: Second Edition (Princeton Field Guides) by Svensson,
Zetterström, and Mullarney is excellent. Well, I assume it's excellent,
because the first edition (which I have) is. I've seen it being used in the
field by European and Scandinavian experts.
Julian
-
That kind of device works pretty well for loud, relatively low-frequency
sounds. For example, I got a pretty good Whip-poor-will recording using
one. They don't do well with high-pitched or distant songs.
Julian
--
From: "Peter Johnson"
Date:
I have been birding in Crosby Farm Park in St. Paul more or less regularly
since 1993, and have never seen or heard a Wood Thrush there until this
morning. One was singing in the bluff woods very near the paved path on the
north side of the small lake (Upper Crosby Lake). I don't expect it to
This morning I heard and saw two Henslow's Sparrows at Grey Cloud Dunes SNA in
southern Washington County. From the parking lot at the end of 110th Street,
start toward the river, but turn onto the trail that angles to the northwest,
staying on the mostly flat land on top of the hill. After yo
On this morning's Urban Bird Fest walk at Battle Creek Park in St. Paul, we
heard two Mourning Warblers singing and two cuckoos. One of the cuckoos
sounded like a Yellow-billed, the other sounded like a Black-billed. I think
cuckoos are not always honest. The other notable warbler was a Cape
A Twin Cities Urban Bird Fest group found a Brown Creeper nest this morning in
Crosby Farm Regional Park in St. Paul. We observed a creeper carrying either
nesting material or food (couldn't tell which it was). After we watched it for
a while, the creeper entered a space behind loose bark, com
It's rare but possible. There is a sizable breeding population of Hooded
Warblers in Murphy-Hanrehan Regional Park (Three Rivers Park District).
(Bruce Fall is the expert on that.) In recent years, the species has been
reported from various locations in MN, including Battle Creek Park and
Cro
Birding at Grey Cloud Dunes SNA in southern Washington County this morning was
fun, with lots of Grasshopper, Vesper, and Field Sparrows and more than a few
Lark Sparrows. The Lark Sparrows hang out mostly near the row of trees at the
base of the hill. The Lark Sparrows and the Vesper Sparrows
Today I came across the following on page 27 of Scott Weidensaul's "Of a
Feather", where the author is describing the pioneering work of the Englishman
Mark Catesby. Catesby published his "The Natural History of Carolina, Florida,
and the Bahama Islands" beginning in 1729 and ending in 1743, an
I found the Summer Tanager singing this morning at the same time and place
described by Joel Claus below. I recorded the song, and loaded an excerpt
into the Audio Gallery on the MOU web site. In more than an hour of
searching for the bird, which was singing almost constantly in the nearby
tr
Yesterday afternoon, I saw an adult male Orchard Oriole feeding three recently
fledged young in the Bruce Vento Nature Sanctuary, which is just east of
downtown St. Paul. The birds were near the base of the bluff in the
southeastern part of the sanctuary. The location is not in a BBA priority
Cornell's Macaulay Library of Natural Sounds has 65 recordings of Hooded
Warbler on its web site. Among them I found recordings of an alternate song
that is very similar to the song I heard this morning at Crosby Park in St.
Paul. A good example is the recording with catalog number 68970 (reco
I led a walk at Crosby Farm Park from 7:00 to 9:00 this morning. From the end
of the main road into the park, we walked down toward the small lake, then to
the left on the old paved path between the lake and the bluff. A couple of
hundred yards down this path, we heard an unidentified song, an
Yes, I've been hearing and seeing a lot of them in my neighborhood,
including one gathering nesting material in my yard today.
Julian
St. Paul
--
From: "linda whyte"
Date: Thursday, May 07, 2009 8:10 PM
To:
Subject: Re: [mou-net] Pine Siskins
My wife and I recently rented "The Great Debaters," which is set in
northeastern Texas in 1935. One scene shows cattle in a pasture with two--you
guessed it--Cattle Egrets, a species which was first seen in North America in
1941 (in south Florida), not well established in the eastern U.S. or ne
ecked Pheasant--one
c.. Red-breasted Nuthatch--one
Count Week Birds:
a.. One Wilson's Snipe
b.. One Long-eared Owl
c.. One Northern Shrike
Julian Sellers, Compiler
Join or Leave mou-net:http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net
Archives:http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
I just noticed the Wilson's Snipe photo by Jeff Evans on the "Sightings" page
of the MOU web site. In the caption, Jeff states: "Found in open water on
north shore of crosby farm lake Ramsey County Dec 22nd." Thank you, Jeff. The
location is within the St. Paul (North) Christmas Bird Count c
Yesterday (Monday), I learned of a Long-eared Owl in Lauderdale. It was on
private property with no public access. Marcie O'Connor got a couple of good
photos, and posted them on her blog at
http://aprairiehaven.com/uploads/img494ff14ea6335.jpg and
http://aprairiehaven.com/uploads/img494ff139
On the St. Paul CBC on Saturday, my team (Lee Pfannmueller, Gary Seim, Dave
Zumeta, Bob Titzler, and I) counted 808 American Robins in SW St. Paul and
SE Minneapolis. Of those, 650 were feeding on hackberries in the Summit
Avenue median between Cretin and Cleveland Avenues, a distance of a
qua
This afternoon, I saw a lone Snow Bunting in the mowed grass behind the
buildings at the Carpenter Nature Center in southern Washington County.
Julian
St. Paul
-- next part --
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL:
http://moumn.org/pipermail/mou-net_moumn.org/attachments
On 8/8/06, I sent the following message to MOU-NET, and received no response:
Yellow & Chestnut-sided Songs
In a recent message, Al Schirmacher confessed to mistaking a Chestnut-sided
Warbler's song for that of a Yellow Warbler. Al, you are not alone. I've
heard it stated that the Yellow's so
Phil Alban discovered a Bell's Vireo along the Elm Creek Regional Trail in
Brooklyn Park. He has been hearing it singing at about 6:00 a.m. on his
morning runs. I heard and saw it at 11:30 this morning (hey, I'm retired).
The location is northwest of the intersection of 101st Ave N & Noble Av
Perhaps not quite so cool as the other late warblers, a Tennessee Warbler sang
vociferously (of course) this morning from tall trees near my house in St. Paul.
Julian
-- next part --
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL:
http://moumn.org/pipermail/mou-net_moumn.org/atta
On my first trip to Waseca County since last fall, my main mission was to check
on Red-necked Grebes for the DNR. I found four on Goose Lake (south side of US
14, E of Waseca. Mott Lake used to be a hot spot for RNGR, but no more. A
Western Grebe and a few duck species were also on Goose Lake
Biking along Mississippi River Blvd at mid-day today, I heard, then saw, the
following (among others):
Alder Flycatcher
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher
Wilson's Warbler
My 2008 Self-propelled BGBY* list total now stands at 104. I haven't gotten
out enough during this great spring migration (only 12
At about 8:30 this morning, I heard a Carolina Wren singing in Crosby Park in
St. Paul. The park is along the Mississippi, below Shepard Road, between the
MN 5 bridge to Fort Snelling and the I-35E bridge. The bird was on the south
side of Crosby Lake (the big lake), roughly somewhat to the we
The small flock of Common Redpolls is still hanging around Amherst and
Princeton in St. Paul, mostly south and west of that intersection. I have seen
and heard them in the early afternoon on 3/2, 3/11, and 3/13, and at 9:30 and
12:00 today. Most of the activity is in tall trees (deciduous and
On 3/2 and today, I have seen a small flock (about 10) of Common Redpolls in
tall trees near Amherst and Princeton in St. Paul. This is a pretty good bird
for the Bigby* list of a city dweller with no feeders.
Julian
*Bigby: See http://www.sparroworks.ca/bigby.html
-- next part --
See the old message below from Mark Martell about accessing Birds of North
America online through the Minneapolis public library. My St. Paul library
info works fine. Here's a more direct link to the Science and Technology
part of the Minneapolis library's list of online databases:
http://www
Bruce Fall sent me a map showing the locations of his Ross's Gull sightings on
the 15th. Despite our best efforts, it appears that the bird missed our count
circle by about a half-mile.
Julian
-- next part --
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL:
http://moumn.org/pipe
The St. Paul CBC on 12/15 found 55 species, down from our record of 62 last
year but within the range of the last 10 years. There were no real rarities,
but good finds included Northern Harrier and Yellow-bellied Sapsucker. A
surprising number was the total of only three gulls--two ring-billed
At Loon Lake in Waseca, noon today:
Ross's Goose (white) - 1
Greater White-fronted Goose - 7
Cackling Goose - dozens, perhaps hundreds
Canada Goose - 1500 (wild guess)
N. Shoveler - some
Ring-necked Duck - 6 or 8
Hooded Merganser - 2 (males)
Ruddy Duck - 1
Mallard - lots
At Clear Lake in Waseca,
"The thrush in my back yard sings down his nose in liquid runs of melody,
over and over again, and I have the strongest impression that he does this
for his own pleasure. It is a meditative, questioning kind of music, and I
cannot believe that he is simply saying 'thrush here'."
Lewis Thoma
If it would be convenient for you to give me a ride to and from the Old Cedar
Avenue bridge event on Saturday, please contact me.
Thank you.
Julian Sellers
St. Paul, Macalester Groveland (3 blocks north of St. Kate's)
651-698-5737
-- next part --
An HTML attachmen
Arrived at the Senn-Rich WMA at about 8:30, hung around the SE corner for a
total of about an hour listening for a Bell's Vireo, but did not hear one. I
did hear one on the county property to the north of the WMA. Saw a
Black-billed Cuckoo, and saw or heard several Eastern Towhees in the SE co
vely as it sang.
- We heard, and a few of us saw, a Yellow-billed Cuckoo near the marsh
boardwalk north of trail marker 3.
Julian Sellers
-- next part --
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL:
http://moumn.org/pipermail/mou-net_moumn.org/attachments/20070602/821d8480/attachment.html
Not earth-shaking, perhaps, but in my 28 years in St. Paul, I have never seen a
loon in Crosby Park until this morning. It was in the middle of Crosby Lake.
Julian Sellers
-- next part --
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL:
http://moumn.org/pipermail/mou
a tree
beside the rec center parking lot before flying toward the SE part of that
section of the park (along Winthrop Street).
Julian Sellers
St. Paul
-- next part --
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL:
http://moumn.org/pipermail/mou-net_moumn.org/attachments
nce to the first large wooden
post. The Henslow's was singing about 30 meters south (left) of the trail in
this area. This is a very large, open grassland, so there may be more
Henslow's present, but I only heard the one.
Julian Sellers
St. Paul
-- next part --
An
of the
Prothonotary.
Julian Sellers
St. Paul
-- next part --
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL:
http://moumn.org/pipermail/mou-net_moumn.org/attachments/20070529/9d77e430/attachment.html
of Blackburnian, Black-and-White, and Chestnut-sided Warblers, and heard two or
three Ovenbirds and a couple of Scarlet Tanagers.
Last year there was another Hooded Warbler in the woods east of McKnight Road
(still Battle Creek Park). I did not get to that part of the park today.
Julian Sellers
the
other expected deciduous woodland species for May 11th (no pewees or cuckoos).
I added another warbler species at Senn-Rich, and ended the day with about 100
species total.
Julian Sellers
St. Paul
-- next part --
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL:
http
Late this afternoon, Barbara and I heard a Carolina Wren singing from an alley
in the middle of the block bounded by Wheeler, Goodrich, Amherst, and
Princeton. This is in the "Tangletown" part of St. Paul's Macalester Groveland
neighborhood.
Julian Sellers
-
eam to the confluence of
the Minnesota and Mississippi Rivers. For more info, go to
http://www.riverrides.com/.
Julian Sellers
-- next part --
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL:
http://moumn.org/pipermail/mou-net_moumn.org/attachments/20070507/be85b493/attachment.html
1 - 100 of 171 matches
Mail list logo