[mou-net] Surf Scoters - Isanti County

2018-10-13 Thread Erik Collins
There are two Surf Scoters on South Stanchfield Lake. I found the best views by parking at Stanchfield Lake Rd/370th Court and walking a bit north to an opening between the trees. Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives:

[mou-net] Duluth MBW summary

2018-10-13 Thread Kim R Eckert
A 3-day Minnesota Birding Weekdays trip, October 10-11-12, based in Duluth surprisingly came up with a total of 96 species despite – or perhaps because of – the challenging weather. Gale-force NE winds off Lake Superior along with steady light rain on Oct 10 made the birding difficult at best,

[mou-net] bird id help please?

2018-10-13 Thread Tim Wahl
Anyone willing to help me with ids on photos of 3 (sadly dead) birds for me? 2 downtown mpls building/window collisions on Sept.18,19 (maybe Swainson's and a immature/female Nashville??) 1 car victim (not mine) on Oct.11 near St.Paul campus (maybe green heron...but looks so small close up) Let

[mou-net] Book donations for annual book sale - MOU Paper Session

2018-10-13 Thread Liz Harper
Hello MOU members and mou-net subscribers, We are starting to collect bird related books for the annual MOU book sale at the Paper Session. If you would like to donate books for the sale, you can bring them the morning of the Paper Session. If you are unable to attend the Paper Session, but

[mou-net] AOU Checklist Update (subspecies)

2018-10-13 Thread David Cahlander
The MOU checklist has been updated to the 2018 version of the AOU checklist. * The Gray Jay is now a Canada Jay * Some changes are made in the scientific names (see http://blog.aba.org/2018/06/aos2018.html) * new subfamilies and sequence have been adopted for the Hawks * additional