[mou] Scarlet Tanger Eloise Butler Bird Sanctuary/Flower Garden

At Eloise this evening at 6:45 PM: Upper part?in the Prarie portion flying between the three big oak trees Scarlet Tanger Indigo Bunting Black Throated Green Warbler Black Poll Warbler Black White Warbler Cape May Warbler Great Crested Fly Catchers -- next part -- An

[mou] Chestnut-Sided Warblers Red Starts (White Bear Lake)

In the three big Oak trees in my front yard I have: Chestnut-Sided Warblers (Many) Am. Redstarts (2) Yellow-Rumped Warblers (Many) -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL:

[mou] Cape May Warbler

There is a single Cape May Warbler in the Oak Trees in my front yard in White Bear Lake.? Feeding on the sprouts, assuming nectar. First for me, John -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL:

[mou] Grass Lake (Snail Lake/Vadnais Lake Regional Park)

The Pelicans were on the other side of Rice Street on Grass Lake. I spotted the following on my walk around Grass Lake- Horned Grebes- 3 Am White Pelicans-150+ at 9am by 10:30 dwindled to 15, by 1 PM 0. Great Blue Heron-1 White Egret-1 Ruby Crowned Kinglet: Many Red Tail Hawk-1 American

[mou] Vadnais Lake (Vadnais/Snail Lake Park)

50+ Pelicans in the AM most?departed Vadnais Lake at 3PM or so in mass. While Photographing the pelicans a sandhill crane flew over head, then landed in the middle of the lake on the remaining?ice.? Stayed there for about 15 min then flew North. Also spotted: Bald Eagle (1) Horned Grebe (1)

[mou] Thurs Night on Goose Lake (Kathy Confer)

In regards to Kathy's sighting of the Egrets, I thought that I would share that when the ice is out on the East portion of Goose Lake (Across Hwy 61) the Egrets make the southeast end tree line thier summer roost.? In the morning and/or evening you can see upwards to a 100+ egrets roosting in

[mou] White Pelicans in Vadnais Heights

Just spotted a grouping of about 50+ white pelicans in the waters of Vadnais/Snail Lake Regional Park.? They were spotted from Rice Street between County Road F and 694 on the east side of Rice where it runs along the lake there.? Beautiful!? I plan on walking the watershed road from County

[mou] Gem Lake = Goose Lake ( I stand Corrected)

I want to apologize, I have been referring to Goose Lake as Gem Lake in all of my previous posts.? So any? previous post of mine with the subject line stating Gem Lake really means Goose Lake specifically the West side of Goose Lake. Today (04/15/2008) I spent most of the afternoon

[mou] Carlos Avery NWA Gem Lake

On way to Carlow Avery NWA: Sandhill Cranes:?4? ( 2?on the county rd that passes Gander Mountain and Cat Heavy Equipment 2 on Zodiac Ave toward entrance to NWA:) At Carlos Avery NWA (walked 7.2 miles RT) Wild Turkey - 1 Whitebreasted Nuthatch- 1 Brown Creeper- 1 Hermit Thrush- 4 Bald Eagle-

[mou] Horned Grebes Gem Lake

I spent the morning on a photograpy expedition to Gem Lake in White Bear Lake this morning. I was photgraphing a loon and a bird I'd never seen before popped up between the loon and me, from the body shape I figured it was a grebe of some sort.? Indeed it was, it was a Horned Grebe, a first for

[mou] Coon Rapids Dam / Gem Lake / Tamarak Nature Center

Took today off for birding, so I had a busy day! Coon Rapids Dam ( Coon Rapids, MN): Pied-Billed Grebe (3) Common Loon (6) Hooded Merganser (1pr) Common Merganser (2) Mallads (Many) Cedar Waxwing (1) Eastern Bluebird (2) Ruddy Ducks (8pr) L. Scaups (6pr) Am. Coot (Many) Gem Lake (WBL,MN)

[mou] Birding Around White Bear Lake/Centerville Area

Hello all- This is my first post since?I've joined?MOU a few days ago, so I?hope I'm doing this right. Today I was out to photograph birds and saw the following: At Gem Lake: 1 pr of Red Breasted Mergansers (Displaying well for Camera, great shots) 3 pr of Hooded Mergansers 6+ pr of Woodducks