From rjs@rohair.com Tue Jul 1 15:27:38 2003 From: rjs@rohair.com (Roger Jay Schroeder) Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2003 09:27:38 -0500 (CDT) Subject: [mou] Bald eagle - Murray County Message-ID: <35233.156.99.90.179.1057069658.squirrel@rohair.com> Was surprised to see a Bald Eagle a few miles south of Lake Shetek in Murray County on Monday. Looked to be an immature - near adult - and was soaring high in a thermal. It peeled off and joined a group of high flying pelicans in another thermal to the west. Lost sight of it after about 25 minutes. I don't know of any recent confirmed nesting of Bald Eagle south of the MN River in SW MN, and would suspect this is a wandering bird. Any other thoughts? -- Peace, Rog From rmdbird@mn.rr.com Tue Jul 1 16:48:35 2003 From: rmdbird@mn.rr.com (Bob Dunlap) Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2003 10:48:35 -0500 Subject: [mou] possible Summer Tanager nesting, Scott County Message-ID: <005b01c33fe8$3c09e5b0$f6c31941@MainComputer> This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0058_01C33FBE.52A97800 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable This morning I birded Murphy-Hanrehan Park in Scott County, mostly to = search for the Summer Tanager I heard back in June. I went back to the = same spot around 7:00 this morning. To get to this spot, park along the = road just west of marker 14 (this is where you go for the Hooded = Warblers). Follow the path in and take the path to the right as you = reach the clearing. This takes you back to marker 15. Take the trail = to your right at 15, which heads east toward marker 16. About 150 yards = or so east on this path from marker 15, there is a low, semi-open spot = with wetlands and tall trees on both sides of the path. This area is = just after coming down a hill. It was here where I heard a male Summer = Tanager back in June. This morning, I waited a minute or two, and then = saw a female tanager fly into a tree on the north side of the path. I = had a quick look at this bird, and could only tell it was a female = tanager, but the wings were not very dark. Just as I put my binoculars = on this bird, the male Summer Tanager flew into the same tree and began = calling "pik tuk tuk". The male sat there for a minute calling within = plain sight of me, and then followed the female bird to a tree just = north of this spot. I could not find them after this, but this behavior = was, at least to me, highly suggestive of nesting. I am not aware of = any breeding records for this species in MN, nor do I know if Summer and = Scarlet Tanagers will hybridize. Just before you come down the hill to = this spot, there are a few Scarlet Tanagers singing, so it is possible = that the female bird was a scarlet. Elsewhere in the park, I found a Henslow's Sparrow still singing near = marker 40. A Hooded Warbler was singing conspicuously near marker 15. = Between markers 1 and 2, I found Cerulean, Mourning, and Chestnut-sided = Warblers. This is the first time I have seen Chestnut-sided here in the = summer. -Bob Dunlap, Carver County ------=_NextPart_000_0058_01C33FBE.52A97800 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
This morning I birded Murphy-Hanrehan = Park in Scott=20 County, mostly to search for the Summer Tanager I heard back in = June.  I=20 went back to the same spot around 7:00 this morning.  To get to = this spot,=20 park along the road just west of marker 14 (this is where you go for the = Hooded=20 Warblers).  Follow the path in and take the path to the = right as=20 you reach the clearing.  This takes you back to marker 15.  = Take the=20 trail to your right at 15, which heads east toward marker 16.  = About 150=20 yards or so east on this path from marker 15, there is a low,=20 semi-open spot with wetlands and tall trees on both sides of the=20 path.  This area is just after coming down a hill.  It was = here where=20 I heard a male Summer Tanager back in June.  This morning, I waited = a=20 minute or two, and then saw a female tanager fly into a tree on the = north side=20 of the path.  I had a quick look at this bird, and could only tell = it was a=20 female tanager, but the wings were not very dark.  Just as I put my = binoculars on this bird, the male Summer Tanager flew into the same tree = and=20 began calling "pik tuk tuk".  The male sat there for a minute = calling=20 within plain sight of me, and then followed the female bird to a tree = just north=20 of this spot.  I could not find them after this, but this behavior = was, at=20 least to me, highly suggestive of nesting.  I am not aware of any = breeding=20 records for this species in MN, nor do I know if Summer and Scarlet = Tanagers=20 will hybridize.  Just before you come down the hill to this spot, = there are=20 a few Scarlet Tanagers singing, so it is possible that the female bird = was a=20 scarlet.
Elsewhere in the park, I found a = Henslow's Sparrow=20 still singing near marker 40.  A Hooded Warbler was singing = conspicuously=20 near marker 15.  Between markers 1 and 2, I = found Cerulean,=20 Mourning, and Chestnut-sided Warblers.  This is the first time I = have seen=20 Chestnut-sided here in the summer.
-Bob Dunlap, Carver=20 County
------=_NextPart_000_0058_01C33FBE.52A97800-- From connyb@mycidco.com Tue Jul 1 13:12:34 2003 From: connyb@mycidco.com (Conny Brunell) Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2003 12:12:34 Subject: [mou] NWR's of Becker Co User Friendly.. Message-ID: Leslie Marcus, Susan Schumacher, and I had a fantastic day roaming around in some of the most unbelievably great National Wildlife Refuge Areas at Hamden Slough, and Tamarac. Bob and Mike were just two of the warm, friendly and helpful staff of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife that we ran into out in the field, and they more than happy to share good locations, and sightings with birders. We went to the Hamden Slough NWR first to the previously reported location of: from the Headquarters building go east past the lake and turn left (north) at then next corner. Follow the road over the hill about 0.7 mile to where you will see a small lake on the left, and a pond on the right. We arrived here at 8am and the Common Moorhens were out in the middle of the pond. We set up our scopes and enjoyed watching them swim around leisurely on a calm, warm, sunny monday morning so close to the side of the road. They vocalized and sounded like chickens with their clucks and squeaks, and with their red bill wide open a sharp kik on and off. The contrast between the black head and neck against the red forhead shield and bill was so striking with the sun shining on it. Those little black eyes were hard to see they blended in so well. They would delicately dip that red bill with a bright yellow tip into the water and toss droplets overhead. At one point they were touching, heads down preening each other. Then one swam over to a cattail clump climbed up and preened, and the other swam across the pond into the cattails and disappeared. We were very lucky to have been there until 8:30 when they were out, and witness this encounter under such ideal conditions. We then headed over to Tamarac NWR where wildlife habitats of tallgrass prairie, northern hardwood, and boreal forests converge that provide a haven for a diversity of wildlife species. The visitor center is a great place to stop first with feeders and a glimpse into the magnificent view that surrounds it. From the parking lot you can hear and see such a variety of birds you feel like you will never have enough time to soak it all in. We took the 5-mile Blackbird Auto Tour Route, and rarely saw another person, and we were able to submerge ourselves into the gifts Nature has provided for us, and the National Wildlife Refuges has protected for us. The wetlands, grasslands, lakes, and woods will have you reeling with pleasure over the birds and wildlife you can observe. This is a "must" see perfect summertime adventure that will have you reeling with a state of positive well-being planning your next trip before you even get home!!!! Conny Brunell Richfield, Hennepin Cty connyb@mycidco.com From golfbird@attbi.com Wed Jul 2 13:27:44 2003 From: golfbird@attbi.com (Dave Felker) Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2003 07:27:44 -0500 Subject: [mou] new e mail address Message-ID: <003001c34095$5acc7780$a8722942@daveuam5mdi8ml> This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0031_01C3406B.71F66F80 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Our new e mail address is golfbird@comcast.net Dave and Linda ------=_NextPart_000_0031_01C3406B.71F66F80 Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

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Dave and Linda

------=_NextPart_000_0031_01C3406B.71F66F80-- From MMARTELL@audubon.org Wed Jul 2 16:46:59 2003 From: MMARTELL@audubon.org (MARTELL, Mark) Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2003 11:46:59 -0400 Subject: [mou] Stillwater Area surveyors needed. Message-ID: I am looking for a birder(s) who would be interested in documenting bird = use on a 50 acres of private property along the St. Croix River north of = Stillwater. The area is managed by a non-profit who is interested in = nominating the area as an IBA. The area is currently not accessible to = the public (hence, not birded). If you are interested please contact me directly. Mark Martell Director of Bird Conservation Audubon Minnesota 2357 Ventura Drive #106 St. Paul, MN 55125 651-739-9332 651-731-1330 (FAX) From MMARTELL@audubon.org Wed Jul 2 16:46:59 2003 From: MMARTELL@audubon.org (MARTELL, Mark) Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2003 11:46:59 -0400 Subject: [mou] Invasive Species Message-ID: A new Audubon report on the effect of invasive species on birds is = available as a PDF file. Feel free to contact me if you are interested. Mark Martell Director of Bird Conservation Audubon Minnesota 2357 Ventura Drive #106 St. Paul, MN 55125 651-739-9332 651-731-1330 (FAX) From ekblad@millcomm.com Thu Jul 3 00:37:40 2003 From: ekblad@millcomm.com (Bob Ekblad) Date: Wed, 02 Jul 2003 18:37:40 -0500 Subject: [mou] Whooping Crane (in Dodge Co) Message-ID: <3F036CC4.5000103@millcomm.com> I went looking for the Whooping Crane that was reported just west of the entrance to Rice Lake State Park late this afternoon. It wasn't at that spot (although it had been reported there yesterday). There was a Stilt Sandpiper, a yellowlegs and some peeps there, however. I did find the crane about 5:30pm on the east side of the lake in Dodge County. From the park entrance go east on 19 to the first place where you can go south (goes past a cemetery). At the point where the road curves to the east I could see the bird quite a distance due south of the curve (intersection of 595 St and 105 Ave). There were also three Sandhill Cranes about a quarter of mile away from the Whooping Crane - to the west of the farmstead located right at the curve. If you are coming from the east or from Hwy 14, you can go west of the gravel pits from the intersection of Hwy 1 and Cty G (the location where Chuck Krulas and Jeff Stephenson located the Eurasian Collared Doves earlier in the year). This road will take you to the intersection mentioned above. -- Bob Ekblad Olmsted County in SE Minnesota http://home.rconnect.com/~ekblad/ From aajensen1@hotmail.com Thu Jul 3 00:49:19 2003 From: aajensen1@hotmail.com (Allison Jensen) Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2003 18:49:19 -0500 Subject: [mou] Deadline for September/October Minnesota Birding, 7.25 Message-ID: This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0052_01C340CA.A51823E0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hello! A friendly reminder that July 25 is the deadline to submit material for = the next issue of Minnesota Birding, September/October. Any questions? Feel free to call or e-mail = me. Thanks, Allison Jensen 651-488-3030, home 612-624-9912, work 1200 W. Eldridge Ave. Roseville, MN 55113 ------=_NextPart_000_0052_01C340CA.A51823E0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Hello!
 
A friendly reminder that July 25 is the deadline to submit material = for the=20 next issue of Minnesota
Birding, September/October. Any questions? Feel free to call = or e-mail=20 me.
 
Thanks,
Allison Jensen
651-488-3030, home
612-624-9912, work
1200 W. Eldridge Ave.
Roseville, MN 55113
------=_NextPart_000_0052_01C340CA.A51823E0-- From axhertzel@sihope.com Fri Jul 4 00:51:30 2003 From: axhertzel@sihope.com (Anthony X. Hertzel) Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2003 18:51:30 -0500 Subject: [mou] MOU RBA 3 July 2003 Message-ID: This is the Minnesota Birding Report for Thursday July 3rd. A EURASIAN COLLARED-DOVE was found in Thief River Falls, Pennington County earlier this week, but I have no specific location. A pair of Eurasian Collared-Doves was at the railroad crossing in the town of Lynd in Lyon County on July 2nd. COMMON MOORHENS were seen on June 27th in Becker County. They can be found in a wetland adjacent to County Road 104, approximately two miles northeast of Audubon. Check on the east side of the road for the sign which states "Hass Wetland". Please note that this is private property. Interesting are the two CASPIAN TERNS found June 29th in a flooded field at the northwest corner of highway 15 and Meeker County Road 18. At Agassiz NWR in Marshall County, 264 shorebirds were counted on June 29th. Along with resident species were GREATER YELLOWLEGS, LESSER YELLOWLEGS, LEAST SANDPIPER, and SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER. This state-wide birding report is brought to you and financially supported by the Minnesota Ornithologists' Union (MOU). The MOU is Minnesota's oldest and largest bird club. The report is composed from observations generously submitted by MOU members and other birders throughout the state. You can support this weekly update by submitting your bird reports to Anthony Hertzel at axhertzel@sihope.com or by calling the hotline directly at 763-780-8890 and leaving a detailed message. MOU members receive this report directly on MOU-net, the club's free e-mail listservice, which is available to anyone interested. For information contact David Cahlander at . MOU members receive the organization's quarterly journal "The Loon" and the bimonthly magazine, "Minnesota Birding". For membership information, send an e-mail message to our membership secretary at moumembers@yahoo.com. In cooperation with the Minnesota Office of Tourism, highlights of this hotline can be now heard at a toll free number which is available to callers outside the Twin Cities area. The number is 1-800-657-3700. The MOU is pleased to offer this service. Thank you, and good birding. The next scheduled update of this tape is Thursday, July 10th. -- Anthony Hertzel -- axhertzel@sihope.com From ajjoppru@wiktel.com Fri Jul 4 03:41:20 2003 From: ajjoppru@wiktel.com (Jeanie Joppru) Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2003 21:41:20 -0500 Subject: [mou] Northwest Minnesota Birding Report- Friday, July 4, 2003 Message-ID: <000801c341d5$c3edffe0$7bb391ce@main> This is the Northwest Minnesota Birding Report for Friday, July 4, 2003 sponsored by the Detroit Lakes Regional Chamber of Commerce. You may also hear this report by calling (218) 847-5743 or 1-800-433-1888. The landscape in the northwest is lush with the new growth of June, and loud with the squawks and peeps of baby birds everywhere. The weather has mostly been kind this year to brooding birds and the results are visible in every nook and cranny. A EURASIAN COLLARED DOVE, first reported by Grace Mayta, was refound by Peder Svingen on June 30th. This is the first sighting of this species in Pennington County.=20 Peder and I did a survey of shorebirds at Agassiz National Wildlife Refuge, Marshall County, on Sunday, June 29. Among them we found a WILSON'S PHALAROPE with three young chicks. A few returning shorebirds were also present including LEAST SANDPIPERS, and one SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER. A total of 264 shorebirds were found. One AMERICAN AVOCET was seen on Thief Bay Pool, but the other bird and the chick were not located. Three BUFFLEHEAD broods were seen. In the course of doing some point counts, I had a SHARP-SHINNED HAWK fly over me, and I also found a BLACK-AND- WHITE WARBLER. On June 30th, Shelley Steva and I located the MERLINS that have returned to nest in the same yard in Newfolden that they nested in last year. It appears that they are feeding young. Six GREATER PRAIRIE-CHICKENS were observed along a minimum maintenance road going north from 190th St. NW two miles west of CR10 in Pennington County on June 28th. This is in Numedal Township. In the same general area, we also found a SHARP-TAILED GROUSE, a SHORT-EARED OWL, and a BREWER'S BLACKBIRD. A RED-HEADED WOODPECKER is coming fairly regularly to our feeder in rural Thief River Falls. In Beltrami County , Carol Schumacher reported four WESTERN GREBES on Blackduck Lake. Other birds seen in the county included MERLIN, UPLAND SANDPIPER,GRAY JAY, SCARLET TANAGER, several species of warbler including GOLDEN-WINGED WARBLER, and EVENING GROSBEAK. Becker County birds of note seen by several individuals this week include the COMMON MOORHENS that are possibly nesting at Hamden Slough NWR. Other Becker County birds reported this week included GREATER YELLOWLEGS at Hamden Slough, and COMMON LOON, TRUMPETER SWAN, and 13 species of warblers at Tamarac National Wildlife Refuge. Rick Hoyme birded Felton Prairie in Clay County on June 28th, and reported the "usual suspects": UPLAND SANDPIPER, WESTERN KINGBIRD, LOGGERHEAD SHRIKE, CHESTNUT-COLLARED LONGSPUR, and ORCHARD ORIOLE. Thanks to those who sent in reports this week. Have a great fourth of July! Please report bird sightings to Jeanie Joppru by email, no later than Thursday each week, at ajjoppru@wiktel.com OR call the Detroit Lakes Chamber's toll free number: 1-800-542-3992. Detroit Lakes area birders please call 847-9202. Please include the county where the sighting took place. When reporting by email please put "NW Bird Report" in the subject line of your message. The next scheduled update of this report is Friday, July 11, 2003. From ajjoppru@wiktel.com Fri Jul 4 15:34:59 2003 From: ajjoppru@wiktel.com (Jeanie Joppru) Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2003 09:34:59 -0500 Subject: [mou] RE: NW report- Eurasian Collared Dove Message-ID: <000101c34239$737d81c0$c2d5aec6@main> OOPS! The location of the Eurasian Collared Dove is Thief River Falls, Pennington County. The bird is moving around within about a 6 block radius between Main St. and State Ave, and between 1st St. and 6th St. It is hard to locate and very easily spooked. Call me at 218-681-1531 if further updates on its location are desired. Jeanie Joppru Pennington County From jwalter@ties2.net Fri Jul 4 20:46:17 2003 From: jwalter@ties2.net (Jay Walter) Date: Fri, 04 Jul 2003 14:46:17 -0500 Subject: [mou] Whooping Crane Relocated Message-ID: After a three hour search of the previously mentioned sites (thanks Bob Eckblad and Carol Schumacher) and the entire area surrounding Rice Lake St. Park, I finally located the Whooping Crane in an open field .6 of a mile North of Rose St./Co. Rd. 19, on N.E. 84th Ave. I searched in intermittent rain from 8am until 11:10 pm when I found the bird about 200 yards West of N.E. 84th. He was actively feeding for 20 minutes, completely exposed in an open field, before flying off to the Southwest in the general direction of the pond on Co. Rd. 19 across from the house with the red shutters ( just West of the entrance to the State Park. The bird is sporting a red band on one leg and a green band or possibly a small radio transmitter on his other leg. The Crane was alone. No sign of the Sandhill Cranes. -- Jay Walter Minneapolis, MN From chetmeyers@visi.com Fri Jul 4 22:57:14 2003 From: chetmeyers@visi.com (Chet Meyers) Date: Fri, 04 Jul 2003 16:57:14 -0500 Subject: [mou] Jirik Sod Farms no shorebirds yet Message-ID: <20030704215714.288A37A926@taranis.mc.mpls.visi.com> Thought I would get an early jump on shorebirds in Dakota County. No birds present on Jirik sod farms (County road 66) with exception of expected killdeer. Still dickcissels, western meadowlark, clay-colored sparrow present at the Empire substation. Noticeably absent were any loggerhead shrikes on 180th St. Last year this was an excellent location for a number of families. From crossbill7200@yahoo.com Sat Jul 5 04:29:17 2003 From: crossbill7200@yahoo.com (Shelley Steva) Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2003 20:29:17 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [mou] RE: NW report- Eurasian Collared Dove In-Reply-To: <000101c34239$737d81c0$c2d5aec6@main> Message-ID: <20030705032917.81140.qmail@web11904.mail.yahoo.com> We- Jeanie and I- saw the bird extremely briefly this morning. It is really hard bird to see- it just doesn't hang around very long when you spot it. Shelley Steva- Thief River Falls --- Jeanie Joppru wrote: > OOPS! The location of the Eurasian Collared Dove is > Thief River Falls, > Pennington County. The bird is moving around within > about a 6 block > radius between Main St. and State Ave, and between > 1st St. and 6th St. > It is hard to locate and very easily spooked. Call > me at 218-681-1531 if > further updates on its location are desired. > Jeanie Joppru > Pennington County > > > _______________________________________________ > mou-net mailing list > mou-net@cbs.umn.edu > http://cbs.umn.edu/mailman/listinfo/mou-net __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com From tominstpaul@msn.com Sat Jul 5 14:46:02 2003 From: tominstpaul@msn.com (Thomas Margevicius) Date: Sat, 05 Jul 2003 13:46:02 +0000 Subject: [mou] Red, White, and Blue in Murphy-Hanrahan Message-ID: Greetings birders. July 4th Karol Gresser and I spent a couple hours in Murphy-Hanrahan park, Scott County. All-white bird was Great Egret; all-blue bird was Indigo Bunting; all red was the previously reported Summer Tanager. Also of note were two singing Hooded Warblers, but I could'nt figure a way to work yellow and black into my Holiday theme. At trail marker 15, turn right (east/south). About 50 yards down that trail we saw and heard a Hooded Warbler; another 50 yards we heard a second. About a quarter mile from the trail marker, the trail descends two hills and opens into a clearing ringed by aspens. At around 12:00 noon we heard singing, then saw, a male Summer Tanager flying between relatively exposed understory branches near the pond on the left(north) of the trail. Fr. Tom Margevicius _________________________________________________________________ Add photos to your messages with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail From axhertzel@sihope.com Sat Jul 5 17:08:45 2003 From: axhertzel@sihope.com (Anthony X. Hertzel) Date: Sat, 5 Jul 2003 11:08:45 -0500 Subject: [mou] WWDO Message-ID: This is secondhand, but well worth reporting. John Hockema is reporting a White-winged Dove in Cook County along County Road 7 at fire call #2927. The bird was apparently seen on a wire. 11:00 A.M. 5 July 2003. -- Anthony Hertzel -- axhertzel@sihope.com From drbenson@cpinternet.com Sat Jul 5 17:23:30 2003 From: drbenson@cpinternet.com (David R. Benson) Date: Sat, 5 Jul 2003 10:23:30 -0600 Subject: [mou] White-winged Dove-Grand Marais 7/5/03 Message-ID: John Hockema just called to report a WHITE-WINGED DOVE west of Grand Marais on Cty Rd 7 in a field across the road from a big, red barn at Fire Number 2927. Dave Benson Duluth From smithville4@msn.com Sun Jul 6 02:30:16 2003 From: smithville4@msn.com (Michael Hendrickson) Date: Sat, 5 Jul 2003 20:30:16 -0500 Subject: [mou] WWDO Update Message-ID: This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0011_01C34334.3EA88DE0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Tony Hertzel and I were at Co. Rd. 7 in Cook Co. from 3:30pm till = 5:00pm and could not relocate the dove. As far as I know John and Chris = Benson were the first and last observers of this dove. Also beware = there are some Rock Doves flying around the red barn and one them was a = silvery gray color with white in the wings exactly were you might see = white in the wings of a White wing Dove.=20 Nice find John and Chris!! Mike H. ------=_NextPart_000_0011_01C34334.3EA88DE0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Tony Hertzel and I were at Co. Rd. 7 in Cook Co.  from 3:30pm = till=20 5:00pm and could not relocate the dove.  As far as I know John and = Chris=20 Benson were the first and last observers of this dove.  Also beware = there=20 are some Rock Doves flying around the red barn and one them was a = silvery gray=20 color with white in the wings exactly were you might see white in the = wings of a=20 White wing Dove. 
 
Nice find John and Chris!!
 
Mike H.
------=_NextPart_000_0011_01C34334.3EA88DE0-- From RHoyme@msn.com Mon Jul 7 00:12:32 2003 From: RHoyme@msn.com (Richard Hoyme) Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2003 18:12:32 -0500 Subject: [mou] Henslow's Sparrows at Frontenac & Great River Bluffs State Parks Message-ID: This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0039_01C343EA.2B3BBF50 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable This weekend I birded the Southeast with Dan Ahlman and found Henslow's = Sparrows singing at the usual place in Great River Bluff's State Park = and then later in the day at Frontenac State Park. They were at the top = of the hill at Frontenac near the curvy road sign that was facing back = down the hill. It was on the north side of the road. I first heard the = "Tslick" call and then saw it calling from a taller weed. It was only = about 20 feet off the road. I asked the park Ranger and he said that = that they have had them in the park before but no one had reported them = in this field before. Other good birds Cabbage Rock - Louisiana Waterthrush Beaver Creek Valley SP. - Acadian Flycatcher La Crescent - Prothonatary Warbler Frontenac - 8 species of Sparrows Sand Dunes near Weaver - Lark Sparrow, Grasshopper Sparrow And many of the "Usual Suspects" Rick Hoyme ------=_NextPart_000_0039_01C343EA.2B3BBF50 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
This weekend I birded the Southeast with Dan Ahlman and found = Henslow's=20 Sparrows singing at the usual place in Great River Bluff's State Park = and then=20 later in the day at Frontenac State Park. They were at the top of the = hill at=20 Frontenac  near the curvy road sign that was facing back down the = hill. It=20 was on the north side of the road. I first heard the "Tslick" call and = then saw=20 it calling from a taller weed. It was only about 20 feet off the=20 road. I asked the park Ranger and he said that that they have had = them in=20 the park before but no one had reported them in this field before.
 
Other good birds
 
Cabbage Rock - Louisiana Waterthrush
Beaver Creek Valley SP. - Acadian Flycatcher
La Crescent - Prothonatary Warbler
Frontenac - 8 species of Sparrows
Sand Dunes near Weaver - Lark Sparrow, Grasshopper Sparrow
 
And many of the "Usual Suspects"
 
Rick Hoyme
------=_NextPart_000_0039_01C343EA.2B3BBF50-- From lmsirvio@comcast.net Mon Jul 7 00:59:01 2003 From: lmsirvio@comcast.net (Larry Sirvio) Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2003 18:59:01 -0500 Subject: [mou] red-necked grebes Message-ID: <000801c3441a$92a289f0$6701a8c0@LMS> This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0005_01C343F0.A97DC5B0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Red-necked grebes. I'm not sure how rare they are but there was a pair with 2 chicks on = Lake Amelia near Glenwood, MN - Last week in June - 03. ------=_NextPart_000_0005_01C343F0.A97DC5B0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Red-necked grebes.
I'm not sure how rare they are but = there was a pair=20 with 2 chicks on Lake Amelia near Glenwood, MN - Last week in June -=20 03.
------=_NextPart_000_0005_01C343F0.A97DC5B0-- From ajjoppru@wiktel.com Mon Jul 7 04:23:39 2003 From: ajjoppru@wiktel.com (Jeanie Joppru) Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2003 22:23:39 -0500 Subject: [mou] Eurasian Collared-Dove- Pennington County Message-ID: <000201c34437$2cb782e0$e9d5aec6@main> The Eurasian Collared-dove has been refound in Thief River Falls on Saturday, July 5th. Shelley Steva and I found the bird sitting on a utility pole near the corner of Kinney and 6th Street, near the arena. This area has only a row of utility poles running beside a railroad track; it is open with no houses. This time we got to watch the bird preen for 15 minutes, only flying when we flushed it on purpose in order to check out the tail better. Perhaps the bird will be easier to find now. Jeanie Joppru Pennington County From jprobeyrx@hotmail.com Mon Jul 7 04:23:55 2003 From: jprobeyrx@hotmail.com (Jim Robey) Date: Sun, 06 Jul 2003 22:23:55 -0500 Subject: [mou] Whooping Crane - Steele County Message-ID: The Whooping Crane is still being sited near Rice Lake State Park. The last two afternoons it has been feeding in a bean field North of the house with the red shutters, mentioned in the previous messages. It has been flying into the pond, just to the north of Co. Rd 19, around 8:30PM for the last four or five evenings. _________________________________________________________________ MSN 8 with e-mail virus protection service: 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus From swisstea@gctel.com Mon Jul 7 15:46:28 2003 From: swisstea@gctel.com (swisstea@gctel.com) Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2003 09:46:28 -0500 (CDT) Subject: [mou] Red-nedked Grebes - Pope Co Message-ID: <1057589188.3f0987c43e178@web.gctel.com> It is nice to hear that the RNG's on Amelia have raised young. The pair that are in a pond on the w side of Hwy 29 a few miles N of Glenwood have had their nest disintegrate twice because of rising water. They are still there and attempting to build another nest. Susan Wiste near Alexandria From christine37o@yahoo.com Mon Jul 7 15:49:04 2003 From: christine37o@yahoo.com (Christine Olson) Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2003 07:49:04 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [mou] Blackpoll Warbler? Message-ID: <20030707144904.96148.qmail@web10104.mail.yahoo.com> --0-1973924160-1057589344=:96139 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Could we have seen a Blackpoll Warbler? Friday morning, July 4th, my 11- year-old son and I were checking out the bog boardwalk behind the visitors' center in Orr, MN. It was quite bird still and quiet, but a gorgeous walk nevertheless (Seth said "it's like a different planet!"). While in an area thick with various pines, Seth latched onto a bird that he thought was a chickadee. But when I saw it, I thought it was much too sleek and, well, "warbler-like" in form and behavior to be a chickadee. And it wasn't a Black-and-white Warbler. When I got to a field guide, I thought that it certainly could have been a Blackpoll, but the map indicated that their range is far north into Canada. The only other Blackpoll Warbler I've ever seen was mid-May last year. Could they be breeding here, too? Or could he be migrating back already (far too soon, I thought). Has anyone else seen Blackpolls recently? Later that day, at Lake Jeanette on The Echo Trail (a genuine slice of heaven, to be sure!), my 7-year-old neice and I went for a bird walk and saw the following: a pair of Mourning Warblers Blackburnian Warbler Common Yellowthroat Yellow--Rumped Warbler Ovenbird Red-eyed Vireo Least Flycatcher Eastern Phoebe White-throated Sparrow Bald Eagle Good birding to all! Christine Olson - Chisholm Peace --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! --0-1973924160-1057589344=:96139 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii
Could we have seen a Blackpoll Warbler?
 
Friday morning, July 4th, my 11- year-old son and I were checking out the bog boardwalk behind the visitors' center in Orr, MN.  It was quite bird still and quiet, but a gorgeous walk nevertheless (Seth said "it's like a different planet!").
 
While in an area thick with various pines, Seth latched onto a bird that he thought was a chickadee.  But when I saw it, I thought it was much too sleek and, well, "warbler-like" in form and behavior to be a chickadee.  And it wasn't a Black-and-white Warbler.
 
When I got to a field guide, I thought that it certainly could have been a Blackpoll, but the map indicated that their range is far north into Canada.  The only other Blackpoll Warbler I've ever seen was mid-May last year.  Could they be breeding here, too?  Or could he be migrating back already (far too soon, I thought).  Has anyone else seen Blackpolls recently? 
 
Later that day, at Lake Jeanette on The Echo Trail (a genuine slice of heaven, to be sure!), my 7-year-old neice and I went for a bird walk and saw the following:
  • a pair of Mourning Warblers
  • Blackburnian Warbler
  • Common Yellowthroat
  • Yellow--Rumped Warbler
  • Ovenbird
  • Red-eyed Vireo
  • Least Flycatcher
  • Eastern Phoebe
  • White-throated Sparrow
  • Bald Eagle

Good birding to all!

Christine Olson - Chisholm

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SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! --0-1973924160-1057589344=:96139-- From rjs@rohair.com Mon Jul 7 16:41:22 2003 From: rjs@rohair.com (Roger Jay Schroeder) Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2003 10:41:22 -0500 (CDT) Subject: [mou] BWCA birds Message-ID: <42766.156.99.90.179.1057592482.squirrel@rohair.com> Birds were singing like crazy in the BWCA last weekend; including many warblers. We stayed on Horse Lake in Lake County. Highlights include a male Black-throated Blue on the northernmost island of Horse Lake, and both Broad-winged and Red-shouldered Hawks over the southeastern bank of Horse Lake. Also heard Veery, and Yellow-bellied Flycatcher on the portage between Mudro and Sandpit lakes, and both Long-eared and Barred owls at night. -- Peace, Rog From tnejbell@comcast.net Mon Jul 7 23:00:36 2003 From: tnejbell@comcast.net (tnejbell@comcast.net) Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2003 22:00:36 +0000 Subject: [mou] Caspian Terns Message-ID: <20030707215934.9132F35B82@biosci.cbs.umn.edu> Three Caspian Terns over the water on Grey Cloud Island on Sunday afternoon. I love watching and hearing those birds. Tom Bell on Grey Cloud Island SW corner of Washington County From two-jays@att.net Tue Jul 8 19:11:01 2003 From: two-jays@att.net (Jim Williams) Date: Tue, 08 Jul 2003 11:11:01 -0700 Subject: [mou] psychologist wanted for bird-related question Message-ID: Is there a psychologist on this network? I have a bird-related question for a psychologist. Thanks. Jim Williams Wayzata two-jays@att.net From earlorf@uslink.net Tue Jul 8 22:01:53 2003 From: earlorf@uslink.net (Earl Orf) Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2003 16:01:53 -0500 Subject: [mou] Hooded Warbler-Springbrook Nature Center Message-ID: <000601c34594$3f9dfa20$4002fea9@TOSHIBAEARL> This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0007_01C3456A.56C7F220 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I saw the Hooded Warbler at Springbrook Nature Center, previously reported by Cole Foster. When I arrived at about 7:30, I searched for about an hour and did not see or hear it. I then went to other parts of the center. When I came back at 9:45 it was singing quite loudly. I spent about 15 minutes and finally saw it land on a dead snag in full view. A beautiful bird. To repeat Cole's directions: Take the main trail south past the nature center. Keep going until you get to where the Hiking Trail splits. Take the "Hiking Trail Forest". The warbler was about 100 yards down this trail. Earl Orf ------=_NextPart_000_0007_01C3456A.56C7F220 Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

I saw the Hooded Warbler at = Springbrook = Nature = Center, previously reported by Cole Foster.  = When I arrived at about 7:30, I searched for about an hour and did not see or hear it.  I then went to other parts of = the center.  When I came back at = 9:45 it was singing quite = loudly.  I spent about 15 minutes and = finally saw it land on a dead snag in full view.  A beautiful = bird.

 

To repeat Cole’s directions:  Take the main trail south past = the nature center.  Keep going = until you get to where the Hiking Trail splits.  Take the “Hiking = Trail = Forest”.  The warbler was about 100 yards = down this trail.

 

Earl Orf

------=_NextPart_000_0007_01C3456A.56C7F220-- From rmdbird@mn.rr.com Wed Jul 9 15:52:49 2003 From: rmdbird@mn.rr.com (Bob Dunlap) Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2003 09:52:49 -0500 Subject: [mou] Birds of Lake and Cook Counties Message-ID: <000e01c34629$c48faea0$f6c31941@MainComputer> This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_000B_01C345FF.DB76F850 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Monday and Tuesday (July 7,8), Craig Mandel and I birded Lake and = Cook Counties. We spent most of Monday in Lake County looking for = boreal species. Of note were: -Black-billed Cuckoo- Hwy. 2 -Connecticut Warbler- along Hwy. 2 near the Sand River -Palm Warbler- Hwy. 1 -Black-throated Blue Warbler- Tettegouche State Park We spent Monday evening searching for the White-winged Dove west of = Grand Marais along County Road 7. We did not find the dove, but did = hear a Vesper Sparrow singing in the field adjacent to the red barn. = East of Grand Marais along Cnty. Rd. 58, we found quite a few LeConte's = Sparrows singing in a sedge marsh on the south side of the road. We = also had an awesome encounter with a Whip-poor-will along this road. We spent most of Tuesday morning along the Gunflint Trail in Cook = County. Before driving up the Gunflint, we searched for the dove again = without success, but did find a Clay-colored Sparrow and Indigo Bunting = in a field along Cnty. Rd. 7. Along the Gunflint, birds of note were: -Both Merlin and American Kestrel -Black-backed Woodpecker- near the North Brule River -Winter Wrens in several places -a few Swainson's Thrushes -Lincoln's Sparrows singing -Dark-eyed Junco- near the North Brule River Back in Grand Marais, we found Gray Catbird, House Wren, House Sparrow, = and House Finch. A very unexpected sight was a flock of about 10 = American White Pelicans just west of Grand Marais along Hwy. 61. =20 -Bob Dunlap, Carver County ------=_NextPart_000_000B_01C345FF.DB76F850 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
On Monday and Tuesday (July 7,8), Craig = Mandel and=20 I birded Lake and Cook Counties.  We spent most of Monday in Lake = County=20 looking for boreal species.  Of note were:
-Black-billed Cuckoo- Hwy. = 2
-Connecticut Warbler- along Hwy. 2 near = the Sand=20 River
-Palm Warbler- Hwy. 1
-Black-throated Blue Warbler- = Tettegouche State=20 Park
 
We spent Monday evening searching for = the=20 White-winged Dove west of Grand Marais along County Road 7.  We did = not=20 find the dove, but did hear a Vesper Sparrow singing in the field = adjacent to=20 the red barn.  East of Grand Marais along Cnty. Rd. 58, we found = quite a=20 few LeConte's Sparrows singing in a sedge marsh on the south side of the = road.  We also had an awesome encounter with a Whip-poor-will along = this=20 road.
We spent most of Tuesday morning along = the Gunflint=20 Trail in Cook County.  Before driving up the Gunflint, we searched = for the=20 dove again without success, but did find a Clay-colored Sparrow and = Indigo=20 Bunting in a field along Cnty. Rd. 7. Along the Gunflint, birds of = note=20 were:
-Both Merlin and American = Kestrel
-Black-backed Woodpecker- near the = North Brule=20 River
-Winter Wrens in several = places
-a few Swainson's Thrushes
-Lincoln's Sparrows = singing
-Dark-eyed Junco- near the North Brule=20 River
Back in Grand Marais, we found Gray = Catbird, House=20 Wren, House Sparrow, and House Finch.  A very unexpected sight was = a flock=20 of about 10 American White Pelicans just west of Grand Marais along Hwy. = 61. 
-Bob Dunlap, Carver County
 
------=_NextPart_000_000B_01C345FF.DB76F850-- From dbmartin@skypoint.com Wed Jul 9 23:23:38 2003 From: dbmartin@skypoint.com (Dennis/Barbara Martin) Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2003 17:23:38 -0500 Subject: [mou] possible Summer Tanager nesting, Scott County References: <005b01c33fe8$3c09e5b0$f6c31941@MainComputer> Message-ID: <001301c34668$c356e1e0$4c2e56c7@oemcomputer> This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_000E_01C3463E.D614A620 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Refound this bird today at the same location Bob saw it on 7/1 and = Father Tom saw it on 7/5. The male bird was observed carrying food but = no female or nest was seen. The spot is considerably more than 150 = yards to the east of 15 or I am getting very old fast and my camera lens = is to heavy to carry any more. I would describe the low spot as the = second downhill area to the east. The spot has wet marshs to the north = and south at almost the same elevation as the trail. The bird was about = 40 yards to the east after you get to the bottom of the hill and on the = north side of the trail in some medium sized trees. I did have to walk up and down the trail for an hour and a half until = the bird started calling and could be seen. Bobs' description of the = call is as good as it gets. Dennis Martin dbmartin@skypoint.com ----- Original Message -----=20 From: Bob Dunlap=20 To: mnbird@linux2.winona.msus.edu ; mou-net@cbs.umn.edu=20 Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2003 10:48 AM Subject: [mou] possible Summer Tanager nesting, Scott County This morning I birded Murphy-Hanrehan Park in Scott County, mostly to = search for the Summer Tanager I heard back in June. I went back to the = same spot around 7:00 this morning. To get to this spot, park along the = road just west of marker 14 (this is where you go for the Hooded = Warblers). Follow the path in and take the path to the right as you = reach the clearing. This takes you back to marker 15. Take the trail = to your right at 15, which heads east toward marker 16. About 150 yards = or so east on this path from marker 15, there is a low, semi-open spot = with wetlands and tall trees on both sides of the path. This area is = just after coming down a hill. It was here where I heard a male Summer = Tanager back in June. This morning, I waited a minute or two, and then = saw a female tanager fly into a tree on the north side of the path. I = had a quick look at this bird, and could only tell it was a female = tanager, but the wings were not very dark. Just as I put my binoculars = on this bird, the male Summer Tanager flew into the same tree and began = calling "pik tuk tuk". The male sat there for a minute calling within = plain sight of me, and then followed the female bird to a tree just = north of this spot. I could not find them after this, but this behavior = was, at least to me, highly suggestive of nesting. I am not aware of = any breeding records for this species in MN, nor do I know if Summer and = Scarlet Tanagers will hybridize. Just before you come down the hill to = this spot, there are a few Scarlet Tanagers singing, so it is possible = that the female bird was a scarlet. ------=_NextPart_000_000E_01C3463E.D614A620 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Refound this bird today at the same location Bob saw = it on 7/1=20 and Father Tom saw it on 7/5.  The male bird was observed carrying = food but=20 no female or nest was seen.  The spot is considerably more than 150 = yards=20 to the east of 15 or I am getting very old fast and my camera lens is to = heavy=20 to carry any more.  I would describe the low spot as the second = downhill=20 area to the east.  The spot has wet marshs to the north and south = at almost=20 the same elevation as the trail.  The bird was about 40 yards to = the east=20 after you get to the bottom of the hill and on the north side of the = trail in=20 some medium sized trees.
 
I did have to walk up and down the trail for an hour = and a=20 half until the bird started calling and could be seen.  Bobs' = description=20 of the call is as good as it gets.
 
Dennis Martin
dbmartin@skypoint.com
----- Original Message -----
From:=20 Bob = Dunlap=20
To: mnbird@linux2.winona.msus.edu = ; mou-net@cbs.umn.edu
Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2003 = 10:48=20 AM
Subject: [mou] possible Summer = Tanager=20 nesting, Scott County

This morning I birded Murphy-Hanrehan = Park in=20 Scott County, mostly to search for the Summer Tanager I heard back in=20 June.  I went back to the same spot around 7:00 this = morning.  To=20 get to this spot, park along the road just west of marker 14 (this is = where=20 you go for the Hooded Warblers).  Follow the path in = and take the=20 path to the right as you reach the clearing.  This takes you = back to=20 marker 15.  Take the trail to your right at 15, which heads east = toward=20 marker 16.  About 150 yards or so east on this path from marker = 15, there=20 is a low, semi-open spot with wetlands and tall trees on both = sides of=20 the path.  This area is just after coming down a hill.  It = was here=20 where I heard a male Summer Tanager back in June.  This morning, = I waited=20 a minute or two, and then saw a female tanager fly into a tree on the = north=20 side of the path.  I had a quick look at this bird, and could = only tell=20 it was a female tanager, but the wings were not very dark.  Just = as I put=20 my binoculars on this bird, the male Summer Tanager flew into the same = tree=20 and began calling "pik tuk tuk".  The male sat there for a minute = calling=20 within plain sight of me, and then followed the female bird to a tree = just=20 north of this spot.  I could not find them after this, but this = behavior=20 was, at least to me, highly suggestive of nesting.  I am not = aware of any=20 breeding records for this species in MN, nor do I know if Summer and = Scarlet=20 Tanagers will hybridize.  Just before you come down the hill to = this=20 spot, there are a few Scarlet Tanagers singing, so it is possible that = the=20 female bird was a scarlet.
------=_NextPart_000_000E_01C3463E.D614A620-- From nature@gunflint.com Thu Jul 10 02:56:00 2003 From: nature@gunflint.com (Naturalist) Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2003 20:56:00 -0500 Subject: [mou] Upper Gunflint Trail Birds - Cook County Message-ID: There have been a lot of birds identified by sight and sound recently on the upper Gunflint Trail. In the last two days, the following birds have been spotted and/or heard. Gunflint Lodge Trails: Connecticut Warbler Magnolia Warbler Veery Ovenbird Common Loon (still nesting) Mallard (with many young) Common Goldeneye American Goldfinch Purple Finch Pine Siskin Chipping Sparrow White-throated Sparrow Ruffed Grouse Caribou Rock Trail: Northern Raven Pileated Woodpecker Turkey Vulture There are several other birds which have been spotted in recent times, but not in the last two days. The following list is entirely from the Gunflint Lake area. Black-backed Woodpecker Rose-breasted Grosbeak Evening Grosbeak American Kestrel Red-eyed Vireo Bald Eagle Hairy Woodpecker Downy Woodpecker Northern Flicker American Crow Black-capped Chickadee Red-breasted Nuthatch White-breasted Nuthatch Blue Jay Herring Gull Ring-billed Gull American Robin Song Sparrow Red-winged Blackbird Barred Owl Ruby-throated Hummingbird Broad-winged Hawk Black and White Warbler If you would like specific trail locations, feel free to contact me. John Silliman Head Naturalist Gunflint Lodge naturalist@gunflint.com From christine37o@yahoo.com Thu Jul 10 21:57:02 2003 From: christine37o@yahoo.com (Christine Olson) Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 13:57:02 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [mou] Fwd: RE: SPRINGBROOK NATURE CENTER Message-ID: <20030710205702.84707.qmail@web10102.mail.yahoo.com> --0-2127338505-1057870622=:84459 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii This is interesting. I got the e-mail memo about the rally to save Springbrook Nature Center in Fridley, and because I can't attend (Fridley's a little far...), I logged onto their web site to see what I could do. Listed were the e-mail addresses of the mayor and councilpersons, so I jotted them a note. Below is the only response I got so far, and following it is my original message. I'm afraid supporters of Springbrook are up against a brick wall here... Christine Olson - Chisholm "Barnette, Robert" wrote: Subject: RE: SPRINGBROOK NATURE CENTER Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 14:04:50 -0500 From: "Barnette, Robert" To: "Christine Olson" Christine...The State legislature has cut Local Government Aid (LGA) to cities, schools and counties. I am sure Gov Pawlenty is doing exactly what he felt that those who voted for him want him to do...cut and hold down taxes and make schools and cities more accountable. That is exactly what we in Fridley must do. This year we lose $750,000.00 in State aids and next year we lose over one million dollars. As a responsible elected official, I refuse to cut essential services,i.e. police, fire, streets, sewer and water which leaves us with Recreation costs. The Springbrook Nature Center costs the Fridley taxpayers over $300,000.00 each year...where did you read that the number of golfers in Minnesota is dwindling??The municipal and County courses in the 7 county metro area ALL are making money. Because we have cut the funding for staffing and closed the interpretative building does not mean the nature center is closed. Like all of our other passive parks, people can still use the center, walk the paths, watch the birds, whatever. 80% of the users of the center are not Fridley residents, perhaps the Chisholm city council could appropriate some dollars to help us keep it staffed?????Bob Barnette, Councilman at Large -----Original Message----- From: Christine Olson [mailto:christine37o@yahoo.com] Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2003 11:30 AM To: Lund, Scott Cc: Barnette, Robert; Billings, Steve; Wolfe, Richard; Bolkcom, Ann Subject: SPRINGBROOK NATURE CENTER To the Mayor: As a lover of birds, I'm concerned about the loss of habitat for them. As an Elementary Education student at Bemidji State University, I am concerned about the dwindling number of "outdoor classrooms" where we can teach our children about the earth. The world does not need more golf courses; the number of people who utilize them is steadily declining. The world does need to preserve our remaining natural habitats; once they're gone, they're gone forever. Christine Marie Olson Chisholm, MN Peace _____ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! Peace --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! --0-2127338505-1057870622=:84459 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii
This is interesting.
 
I got the e-mail memo about the rally to save Springbrook Nature Center in Fridley, and because I can't attend (Fridley's a little far...), I logged onto their web site to see what I could do.  Listed were the e-mail addresses of the mayor and councilpersons, so I jotted them a note.  Below is the only response I got so far, and following it is my original message.  I'm afraid supporters of Springbrook are up against a brick wall here...
 
Christine Olson - Chisholm

"Barnette, Robert" <BarnetteR@ci.fridley.mn.us> wrote:
Subject: RE: SPRINGBROOK NATURE CENTER
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 14:04:50 -0500
From: "Barnette, Robert"
To: "Christine Olson"

Christine...The State legislature has cut Local Government Aid (LGA) to cities, schools and counties. I am sure Gov Pawlenty is doing exactly what he felt that those who voted for him want him to do...cut and hold down taxes and make schools and cities more accountable. That is exactly what we in Fridley must do. This year we lose $750,000.00 in State aids and next year we lose over one million dollars. As a responsible elected official, I refuse to cut essential services,i.e. police, fire, streets, sewer and water which leaves us with Recreation costs. The Springbrook Nature Center costs the Fridley taxpayers over $300,000.00 each year...where did you read that the number of golfers in Minnesota is dwindling??The municipal and County courses in the 7 county metro area ALL are making money. Because we have cut the funding for staffing and closed the interpretative building does not mean the nature center is closed. Like all of our other passive parks, people can still use the center, walk the paths, watch the birds, whatever. 80% of the users of the center are not Fridley residents, perhaps the Chisholm city council could appropriate some dollars to help us keep it staffed?????Bob Barnette, Councilman at Large

-----Original Message-----
From: Christine Olson [mailto:christine37o@yahoo.com]
Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2003 11:30 AM
To: Lund, Scott
Cc: Barnette, Robert; Billings, Steve; Wolfe, Richard; Bolkcom, Ann
Subject: SPRINGBROOK NATURE CENTER


To the Mayor:

As a lover of birds, I'm concerned about the loss of habitat for them. As an Elementary Education student at Bemidji State University, I am concerned about the dw indling number of "outdoor classrooms" where we can teach our children about the earth.

The world does not need more golf courses; the number of people who utilize them is steadily declining. The world does need to preserve our remaining natural habitats; once they're gone, they're gone forever.

Christine Marie Olson
Chisholm, MN


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SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! --0-2127338505-1057870622=:84459-- From ajjoppru@wiktel.com Fri Jul 11 03:58:12 2003 From: ajjoppru@wiktel.com (Jeanie Joppru) Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 21:58:12 -0500 Subject: [mou] Northwest Minnesota Birding Report- Friday, July 11, 2003 Message-ID: <000501c34758$47ed3d10$d1d5aec6@main> This is the Northwest Minnesota Birding Report for Friday, July 11, 2003 sponsored by the Detroit Lakes Regional Chamber of Commerce. You may also hear this report by calling (218) 847-5743 or 1-800-433-1888. What with the holiday this weekend, birding reports have been scarce, but don't let that convince you that birds have also been scarce! With all the baby birds the more common species have greatly increased in numbers. The southward migration of shorebirds has begun in earnest with the number of shorebirds counted at Agassiz National Wildlife Refuge increasing nearly eight-fold. In Thief River Falls, Pennington County, the EURASIAN COLLARED-DOVE was refound on Saturday, July 5th preening on a utility pole near the corner of Kinney and 6th St. near the arena. We watched it for at least 15 minutes, and were able to hear it vocalize, and see all the key field marks. This bird is not easy to find, however, and I have not seen it since although I have not had time to look for it either. If anyone needs an update, you can email me at ajjoppru@wiktel.com or call me at 218-681-1531. Leo Lantz reported a RED-HEADED WOODPECKER and a GREAT CRESTED FLYCATCHER along the southeast shore of Ottertail Lake in Ottertail County on July 6th. On July 7th, Alma Ronningen had a female NORTHERN CARDINAL come to the feeder in Dent. She also reported an OSPREY nesting on their property. Other species nesting there included TREE SWALLOW, EASTERN BLUEBIRD, AMERICAN ROBIN, YELLOW WARBLER, CHIPPING SPARROW, and HOUSE FINCH. At our feeder in rural Thief River Falls, Pennington County, we have young birds of several species, including both DOWNY WOODPECKER and HAIRY WOODPECKER. An adult RED-HEADED WOODPECKER is coming daily, sometimes spending most of the day at the feeder. An INDIGO BUNTING has been singing from a neighbor's yard. Mary Broten reported a WHITE-THROATED SPARROW in Marshall County south of Newfolden on July 7th. On July 4th, Shelley Steva and I birded in the Thief Lake WMA in northeastern Marshall County and found BROAD-WINGED HAWK, 8 species of warblers, and a PURPLE FINCH singing on territory in the far northeastern corner of the county. This latter sighting is near the western limit of the summer range of the purple finch. Shorebirds are the big news this week in Marshall County- returning birds counted last weekend at Agassiz National Wildlife Refuge included an early migrant BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER, SEMIPALMATED PLOVER, SOLITARY SANDPIPER, BAIRD'S SANDPIPER, and STILT SANDPIPER, and 73 SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHERS. Three AMERICAN AVOCETS were found. A total of 1946 individuals of 17 species were counted there on Sunday, July 6th. Thanks to Mary Broten, Leo Lantz, and Alma Ronningen for their reports. Please report bird sightings to Jeanie Joppru by email, no later than Thursday each week, at ajjoppru@wiktel.com OR call the Detroit Lakes Chamber's toll free number: 1-800-542-3992. Detroit Lakes area birders please call 847-9202. Please include the county where the sighting took place. When reporting by email please put "NW Bird Report" in the subject line of your message. The next scheduled update of this report is Friday, July 18, 2003. From axhertzel@sihope.com Fri Jul 11 04:11:49 2003 From: axhertzel@sihope.com (Anthony X. Hertzel) Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 22:11:49 -0500 Subject: [mou] MOU RBA 10 July 2003 Message-ID: This is the Minnesota Birding Report for Thursday July 10th. The EURASIAN COLLARED-DOVE was relocated in Thief River Falls Pennington County, on July 5th. It was sitting on a utility pole near the corner of Kinney and 6th Street near the arena. Thanks to Jeanie Joppru for these directions. The July 6th shorebird survey at Agassiz NWR in Marshall County found a substantial increase in birds from one week ago. A total of 1946 individuals of 17 species was counted, most of them at Thief Bay Pool. Highlights included the first fall migrant BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER and SEMIPALMATED PLOVER, plus SOLITARY SANDPIPER, BAIRD'S SANDPIPER, and STILT SANDPIPER, and a high count of 73 SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHERS. Three CASPIAN TERNS were over the water on Grey Cloud Island in Washington County on July 6th. A HOODED WARBLER is being seen at Springbrook Nature Center in Fridley, Anoka County. Take the main trail south past the Nature Center. Walk to where the trail splits and take the "Hiking Trail Forest". The warbler was about 100 yards down this trail. Finally, Sarah Dye found five CERULEAN WARBLERS at Elm Creek Park Reserve in Brooklyn Park, Hennepin County. She observed them on July 4th from the wooden bridge that goes over the first pond. This state-wide birding report is brought to you and financially supported by the Minnesota Ornithologists' Union (MOU). The MOU is Minnesota's oldest and largest bird club. The report is composed from observations generously submitted by MOU members and other birders throughout the state. You can support this weekly update by submitting your bird reports to Anthony Hertzel at axhertzel@sihope.com or by calling the hotline directly at 763-780-8890 and leaving a detailed message. MOU members receive this report directly on MOU-net, the club's free e-mail listservice, which is available to anyone interested. For information contact David Cahlander at . MOU members receive the organization's quarterly journal "The Loon" and the bimonthly magazine, "Minnesota Birding". For membership information, send an e-mail message to our membership secretary at moumembers@yahoo.com. In cooperation with the Minnesota Office of Tourism, highlights of this hotline can be now heard at a toll free number which is available to callers outside the Twin Cities area. The number is 1-800-657-3700. The MOU is pleased to offer this service. Thank you, and good birding. The next scheduled update of this tape is Thursday, July 17th. -- Anthony Hertzel -- axhertzel@sihope.com From drbenson@cpinternet.com Fri Jul 11 05:06:08 2003 From: drbenson@cpinternet.com (David R. Benson) Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 22:06:08 -0600 Subject: [mou] Duluth RBA 7/10/03 Message-ID: This is the Duluth Birding Report for Thursday, July 10, 2003, sponsored by the Minnesota Ornithologists' Union. The WHITE-WINGED DOVE reported by John Hockema from near Grand Marais on the 5th was not relocated later in the day and has not been reported since. However, while looking for the dove, Bob Dunlap found a VESPER SPARROW on Cook Cty Rd 7 west of Grand Marais on the 8th. On the same day he saw a group of ten AMERICAN WHITE PELICANS on Lake Superior west of Grand Marais. On the Gunflint Trail, Sue McDonnell reported three BLACK-BACKED WOODPECKERS on the Magnetic Rock Trail near the end of the Gunflint. Two birds were fairly near the beginning of the trail and a third was in a burn farther from the Gunflint Trail. Jan Green reported a TRUMPETER SWAN on Stone Lake at the end of the Skibo Road, southeast of Hoyt Lakes in northern St. Louis County. Jonas Benson spotted an escaped Ringed Turtle-Dove near 6th Ave E and 8th St in Duluth on the 8th. The next scheduled update of this report will be on Thursday, July 17. The phone number for the Duluth Birding Report is (218) 728-5030, and callers can report bird sightings if they wish after the tone at the end of each tape. The Duluth Birding Report is sponsored and funded by the Minnesota Ornithologists' Union (MOU) as a service to its members. For more information on the MOU, either write us c/o the Bell Museum of Natural History, 10 Church Street SE, Minneapolis MN 55455; or send an e-mail to mou@cbs.umn.edu; or visit the MOU web site at mou.mn.org. From fredericksonr@willmar.k12.mn.us Sat Jul 12 19:34:47 2003 From: fredericksonr@willmar.k12.mn.us (fredericksonr@willmar.k12.mn.us) Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2003 12:34:47 -0600 Subject: [mou] FYI on legislation that will impact birds Message-ID: Just a heads up for anyone interested. Randy Frederickson MOU conservation committee > >This statute could have terrible effects on the entire western United >States, including public lands, private lands, and native lands. > >Take a minute to send a message to your member of Congress (email address >for action alert shown below). > >Thanks! > >Scott Hed >Plains, Prairie & Northland Organizer >Alaska Coalition >300 N. Dakota Ave., # 218A >Sioux Falls, SD 57104 >(605) 336-6738 office >(605) 351-1646 cell >scott@alaskacoalition.org >www.alaskacoalition.org > >> STOP THE PUBLIC LANDS GIVEAWAY! >> Obscure 19th Century rule could wreak havoc on public lands from Alaska t= o >> Utah >> >> Alaska=EDs cherished wild lands are under assault as never before. In >addition >> to legislation in the U.S. Congress to increase logging in the Tongass an= d >> Chugach national forests and to allow oil drilling in the Arctic National >> Wildlife Refuge, powerful political appointees are also issuing orders to >> overturn decades of federal public lands policy. >> >> Earlier this year, the Bush administration resurrected a civil-war era >> statute referred to as Revised Statute 2477 (R.S.2477) to allow special >> interests and local jurisdictions to convert thousands of miles of >primitive >> rights-of-ways that cross federal land =F3 including old mining and >livestock >> trails, footpaths, streambeds, and even the section lines from maps =F1 i= nto >> damaging paved roads and highways, recklessly endangering the very places >> Americans care most about. >> >> This amounts to a massive giveaway of OUR public lands. This little know= n >> loophole leaves no place off-limits; private interests could plow roads >> through any number of National Parks and Monuments, Wildlife Refuges, >> National Forests, even Wilderness Areas, without environmental review or >> meaningful public input. In some cases, even PRIVATE land could have >RS2477 >> claims filed against them by other private interests. >> >> Alaskan public lands are far from alone on this issue; indeed public land= s >> in many other states could suffer as much or more from the potential >effects >> of RS2477. Natural treasures at risk from these =ECroads to ruin=EE incl= ude >> Utah's Canyonlands and Zion National Parks and the Grand-Staircase >Escalante >> National Monument, migratory waterfowl habitat in Colorado=EDs Browns Par= k >> National Wildlife Refuge, some of the southwest=EDs most spectacular scen= ery >> in Dinosaur National Monument, and California=EDs Mojave National Preserv= e. >> >> In Alaska, routes within Denali National Park, Wrangell-St. Elias Nationa= l >> Park, and in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, some of the nation=EDs >most >> pristine wildlands, have been claimed by the State of Alaska as erstwhile >> roads. In Denali National Park alone, the state has identified 24 routes >as >> purported RS 2477 claims. Most of these are in the northern quarter of th= e >> park and cover over 300 miles of territory. In addition, there are 23 >> RS2477 proposed claims in the Tongass National Forest, already heavily hi= t >> by logging roads. The Chugach National Forest, 98% of which has no roads >and >> is currently the wildest of all our national forests, has 24 RS2477 claim= s >> in it. Even in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, which has no roads a= t >> all anywhere in it, the State is pursuing seven different RS2477 right of >> way claims. >> >> We need your help today to stop greedy special interests from robbing >future >> generations of their birthright of public lands, parks, and wilderness. >As >> soon as the week of July 13, the U.S. House of Representatives could be >> debating a bill that funds the Department of Interior. Representative >Mark >> Udall (D-CO) will offer an amendment to prevent the Department of Interio= r >> from allowing irresponsible road construction from RS2477 claims across >our >> national parks and monuments, wildlife refuges, wilderness areas, nationa= l >> forests and other public lands. This amendment will most likely be going >> before the House of Representatives sometime during the week of July 13, >so >> Congress needs to hear from us pronto! >> >> >> >> WHAT YOU CAN DO: >> >> Please e-mail your Representative TODAY and urge your Representative to >> support the Udall Amendment to the Interior Appropriations bill to preven= t >> the give-away of our parks and public lands. Click >> >http://capwiz.com/awc/issues/alert/?alertid=3D2778501 > > to send a free email to >> your member. Tell them why protecting our public lands is important to >you. >> >> Call the Capitol Switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and ask to be put through >to >> the office of your member! Tell them to please support the Udall >Amendment >> to the Interior Appropriations bill to stop the RS2477 give-away of our >> public lands. Leave your name and address and ask for a response in >> writing. Say thanks! >> >> Forward this alert to as many of your friends, family and coworkers, and >> anyone else who would care about our public lands that you can think of. >> >> Write a letter to your paper about the issue and tell them that Congress >> needs to put the brakes on RS2477 before we irrevocably damage some of ou= r >> most pristine public lands. Go to http://www.opedletters.com/ to find >your >> local paper. >> >> >> >> >> Erik DuMont >> National Field Director >> Alaska Wilderness League >> 122 C Street, NW, Suite 240 >> Washington, DC 20001 >> P: 202-544-5205 >> F: 202-544-5197 >> www.alaskawild.org >> >> >> >> >> ---------------------------- >> You are currently subscribed to ak_field as: scott@alaskacoalition.org >> To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-ak_field-7999S@lists.b-team.or= g > From robert.oconnor@ndsu.nodak.edu Sat Jul 12 21:10:27 2003 From: robert.oconnor@ndsu.nodak.edu (robert.oconnor@ndsu.nodak.edu) Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2003 15:10:27 -0500 (CDT) Subject: [mou] becker county moorhens Message-ID: <49168.24.117.132.131.1058040627.squirrel@webmail.ndsu.nodak.edu> Hi, I checked on the Hamden Slough Common Moorhens Saturday morning, the 12th, and saw at least one of them in the previously posted location. It put in four appearances over a period of an hour and a half, and for twenty minutes or so, it was preening in a gap in the cattails. Bob O'Connor From gailoscarj@mymailstation.com Sat Jul 12 21:53:18 2003 From: gailoscarj@mymailstation.com (gailoscarj) Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2003 16:53:18 EDT Subject: [mou] Little B lue Heron Message-ID: This morning (late a.m.) I observed a L B H at French Lake. French Lake is located in Dayton, MN. The bird was seen along gthe west edge of the lake , about at the mid point of the N-S axis of the lake. I observed the bird from East French Lake Road. A telescope would be useful from this location. Oscar L. Johnson Brooklyn Park From steff001@tc.umn.edu Sun Jul 13 02:49:20 2003 From: steff001@tc.umn.edu (Michael Steffes) Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2003 20:49:20 -0500 Subject: [mou] Black-throated Blue Warblers Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.20030712203933.01cc5e30@steff001.email.umn.edu> I heard 11-12 different Black-throated Blue Warblers on or west of Moose Mtn near Lutsen today. Good numbers for that area. They are still singing also in Lake County. Mike From Hagsela@aol.com Sun Jul 13 04:43:03 2003 From: Hagsela@aol.com (Hagsela@aol.com) Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2003 23:43:03 EDT Subject: [mou] Meeker Co. Shorebirds Message-ID: <4e.1f2271cf.2c422f47@aol.com> I checked out the flooded fields one mile west of Cedar Mills on Hwy 7. It's currently playing host to a good number of Lesser Yellowlegs, Least Sandpipers, Solitary Sandpipers, one Short-billed Dowitcher, and one Green-winged Teal. The road is marked 610th Av. The fields are on the north side of Hwy 7. The field to the west of 610th seems pretty deep and should last a while. Good birding! Linda Sparling Hennepin Av. From connyb@mycidco.com Sun Jul 13 08:59:18 2003 From: connyb@mycidco.com (Conny Brunell) Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2003 07:59:18 Subject: [mou] Schaefer Prairie, McLeod Co. Message-ID: The mission of the Nature Conservancy is to preserve the plants, animals, and natural communities that represent the diversity of life on Earth by protecting the lands and waters they need to survive. These tracts are some of my favorite places to enjoy while out birding, and the 160 acre Natural Area, Schaefer Prairie in McLeod County is just one of these havens to be enjoyed. Leslie Marcus and I chose this path Saturday that led us to the perfect diversion of rolling grasslands, and marsh out in an area off the beaten path quiet enough that you could hear the sound of a breeze ruffling a cornstalk. The perfect place to meander, listen, and watch for the birds to unfold themselves in the midst of such picturesque habitat. The air waves were filled with the songs of secretive birds hiding in the grass that would pop up momentarily then drop back to cover quickly. We enjoyed the Sedge and Marsh Wrens, Swamp and Clay-colored Sparrows, Common Yellowthroat, Virginia Rail, Bobolink, Dickcissel, Eastern Kingbird, Catbird, and a Black-billed Cuckoo. Schaefer Prairie is in McLeod Co and can be reached from US Hwy 212, 4.3 miles West of Mn 22 jct near Glencoe, then turning South (left) on Nature Ave, and follow the road .6mi. Conny Brunell Richfield, Hennepin Cty connyb@mycidco.com From SnoEowl@aol.com Sun Jul 13 17:36:50 2003 From: SnoEowl@aol.com (SnoEowl@aol.com) Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2003 12:36:50 EDT Subject: [mou] Another great bird book Message-ID: <102.31dee208.2c42e4a2@aol.com> --part1_102.31dee208.2c42e4a2_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit There is another great bird book for you to jam into your bulging bookshelves. It is "Birds of Minnesota and Wisconsin"by Robert B. Janssen, Daryl D. Tessen and Gregory Kennedy. Published by Lone Pine, it covers 322 species and features a painting of the bird along with an interesting description for each one. Also included for each species are ID tips, size, status, habitat, nesting, feeding, voice, similar species and best sites. The book is very well done and deserving of a place in a birder's library. Good birding, Al Batt --part1_102.31dee208.2c42e4a2_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable     There is another great bird book fo= r you to jam into your bulging bookshelves.  It is "Birds of Minnesota=20= and Wisconsin"by Robert B. Janssen, Daryl D. Tessen and Gregory Kennedy.&nbs= p; Published by Lone Pine, it covers 322 species and features a painting of=20= the bird along with an interesting description for each one.  Also incl= uded for each species are ID tips, size, status, habitat, nesting, feeding,=20= voice, similar species and best sites.  The book is very well done and=20= deserving of a place in a birder's library.
Good birding,
Al Batt --part1_102.31dee208.2c42e4a2_boundary-- From odunamis@yahoo.com Sun Jul 13 22:13:38 2003 From: odunamis@yahoo.com (Chad Heins) Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2003 14:13:38 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [mou] Lake Shetek SP Message-ID: <20030713211338.36509.qmail@web10507.mail.yahoo.com> Hey birders! I just spent an enjoyable weekend at Lake Shetek State Park in Murray County. I have two things to note. First, their fish ponds are currently drawn down revealing some nice shorebird habitat. Lesser Yellowlegs, Killdeer, and Least Sandpipers were seen on Friday and Saturday. Second, there was an interesting pair of pewees singing near the state park's interpretive center. In my experience, Eastern Wood-Pewees have two primary songs: the pee-aweee (dominantly) and pee-yeer (descending). The two birds (mated pair?) that woke me up this morning added a third song that sounded very Western Wood-Peweeish. They would alternate the typical songs with a "burr-bur'ry" that was distinctly different (to the point of obvious). A typical sequence would go like this: pee-aweee, burr-burry, pee-awee, burr-burry, pee-yeer, burr-burry, pee-awee, burr-burry, etc... The "burr" was slower than the "burry" which had a strikingly similar cadence (not sound) to the quick "bee-bee" of the Eastern Phoebe. Also of interest, this song was only heard before dawn. After the sun came up, I only heard the typical Eastern Wood-Pewee vocalizations. I also heard this alternate song briefly on Friday night (after sunset) but could make no sense of it. Regardless, it was pretty dark both times. In my 15 years of birding I have never heard this vocalization out of an Eastern Wood-Pewee. I have heard something frighteningly similar from a Western Wood-Pewee however. I understand that birds at this time of year are not pumped up on hormones and change their songs, but normally that results in sloppy singing or shortening of the songs not improvisation or release of an entirely new album. So...anyone out there have any thoughts? Hybrids? Western Wood-Pewees trying to fit in? Other? Regardless of what the conclusion of this matter is, it is always nice to learn that there is always more to learn about what you think you know. Happy Birding! Chad Heins Mankato, MN __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com From Hagsela@aol.com Mon Jul 14 01:30:26 2003 From: Hagsela@aol.com (Hagsela@aol.com) Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2003 20:30:26 EDT Subject: [mou] Little Blue not found Message-ID: <17e.1dad3b55.2c4353a2@aol.com> I tried today for the reported Little Blue Heron at French Lake, Hennepin County. I scanned both sides of the lake with a scope, from 4:00 to 5:30. No luck with the Little Blue, but a saw a good number of Great Blue Herons, a Bald Eagle, and a Trumpeter Swan. Good Birding, Linda Sparling Hennepin Co. From dbmartin@skypoint.com Mon Jul 14 03:43:28 2003 From: dbmartin@skypoint.com (Dennis/Barbara Martin) Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2003 21:43:28 -0500 Subject: [mou] becker county moorhens References: <49168.24.117.132.131.1058040627.squirrel@webmail.ndsu.nodak.edu> Message-ID: <004501c349b1$b5b84fa0$352e56c7@oemcomputer> We saw the same single bird in the northwest corner of the marsh late Saturday PM. Had to quietly wait for 20 minutes or so and then it just casually showed up in a hole in the cattails. Amazingly cooperative. Dennis and Barbara Martin dbmartin@skypoint.com ----- Original Message ----- From: To: Sent: Saturday, July 12, 2003 3:10 PM Subject: [mou] becker county moorhens > Hi, > > I checked on the Hamden Slough Common Moorhens Saturday morning, the 12th, > and saw at least one of them in the previously posted location. It put in > four appearances over a period of an hour and a half, and for twenty > minutes or so, it was preening in a gap in the cattails. > > Bob O'Connor > > > _______________________________________________ > mou-net mailing list > mou-net@cbs.umn.edu > http://cbs.umn.edu/mailman/listinfo/mou-net > From cfagyal@broadbandusa.cc Mon Jul 14 03:50:29 2003 From: cfagyal@broadbandusa.cc (Chris Fagyal) Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2003 21:50:29 -0500 Subject: [mou] Kestrels, Shrikes etc Message-ID: <000201c349b2$afbcd3e0$6401a8c0@mcsi.cc> This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0003_01C34988.C6E6CBE0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi all, Nothing overly interesting, but since recently someone posted about not seeing any shrikes around, I thought I'd bring it up. Saw a family of 4 loggerheads at 180th just past Emery Ave, and at least one other family of 3 + a few individuals on Emery between 160th and 180th. Also saw 3 or 4 different kestrels along Emery Ave, as well as a family of 3 Kestrels at the Empire Substation to go along with the Dicksissels, Grasshopper Sparrows, Clay-Colored Sparrows, and a very obliging House Wren that sat and sang no more than 10 feet in front of me. Pictures are on my web site. Saturday I went out to Sherburne NWR in the morning after checking on my house, and was able to spend some incredible time with a pair of Loons. I watched them frolick together (mate maybe? I haven't seen loons mate but this looked interesting to say the least), feed, sleep, and generally enjoy their morning. They were so at ease as I sat there in my car that one of them approached within maybe 15 feet of the shore and let me take pictures for a good 30 minutes while it was diving, before heading further away to join its mate again. It was a magical hour and a half to say the least for me. 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Hi all,

 

Nothing overly interesting, but since recently = someone posted about not seeing any shrikes around, I thought I’d bring it = up.

 

Saw a family of 4 loggerheads at 180th = just past Emery = Ave, and at least one other family of 3 + a few individuals on Emery between = 160th and 180th.  Also = saw 3 or 4 different kestrels along Emery = Ave, as well as a family of 3 Kestrels at the Empire Substation to go along with the = Dicksissels, Grasshopper Sparrows, Clay-Colored = Sparrows, and a very obliging House Wren that sat and sang no more than 10 feet in = front of me.  Pictures are on my = web site.

 

Saturday I went out to Sherburne NWR in the morning = after checking on my house, and was able to spend some incredible time with a = pair of Loons.  I watched them = frolick together (mate maybe? I haven’t seen = loons mate but this looked interesting to say the least), feed, sleep, and = generally enjoy their morning.  They = were so at ease as I sat there in my car that one of them approached within = maybe 15 feet of the shore and let me take pictures for a good 30 minutes while = it was diving, before heading further away to join its mate again.  It was a magical hour and a = half to say the least for me.

 

Chris

 

------=_NextPart_000_0003_01C34988.C6E6CBE0-- From dbmartin@skypoint.com Mon Jul 14 04:00:58 2003 From: dbmartin@skypoint.com (Dennis/Barbara Martin) Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2003 22:00:58 -0500 Subject: [mou] Rails, Sparrows Message-ID: <007301c349b4$2746d400$352e56c7@oemcomputer> Had Yellow Rails and very plentiful Sharp-tailed Sparrows singing at two locations Saturday night after dark. Neal WMA (SE Norman County, two miles plus, east of Hwy 32 on Cty Rd. 39) and Waubun WMA (SW Mahnomen County, one mile west of Hwy 59 on Cty 113, and two miles south, then west on the dead end road.) The Sharp-tailed Sparrows were literally there every time we got out of the car, no matter where it was along these locations. The Yellow Rails were a little harder to hear but we eventually heard at least one bird at each location. Take lots of mosquito repellant or head nets. Dennis and Barbara Martin dbmartin@skypoint.com From fieldfare21@hotmail.com Mon Jul 14 04:24:50 2003 From: fieldfare21@hotmail.com (Benjamin Fritchman) Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2003 22:24:50 -0500 Subject: [mou] 70-year wait....finally: Henslow's Sparrow in Todd Message-ID: My grandpa, John Kroll, has been birding Todd County for over 70 years, and every time we go out birding he points out fields that "should" have Henslows Sparrows. After scanning every mullein(spelling?) stalk in Todd County for the last 3 years I never expected to actually find one, but he scans every field every time we go birding, actually "expecting" them to be there. Tonight our search finally ended. At about 8 P.M. Susan and John Kroll and I found a Henslows Sparrow east of Cedar Lake. Cedar Lake is south of Long Prairie on Hwy. 71. To get to the field take the road on the north side of Cedar Lake going east from Hwy 71, follow it for a few miles until you get to 231st Ave. The bird was in the northwest field at this intersection. The bird called several times from a mullein stalk very close to the road, I heard it first and called my grandparents over. They soon heard and saw it. I believe this is a first county record, and from now on I'll listen to my grandpa, because as long as birds have wings, they're always possible anywhere...... Good birding, Ben Fritchman Long Prairie, MN _________________________________________________________________ Add photos to your e-mail with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail From Xlntartist@aol.com Mon Jul 14 12:13:53 2003 From: Xlntartist@aol.com (Xlntartist@aol.com) Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 07:13:53 EDT Subject: [mou] Downy woodpecker at my hummingbird feeder Message-ID: <1d7.d790a1e.2c43ea71@aol.com> --part1_1d7.d790a1e.2c43ea71_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I situated a hummingbird feeder over an old flat topped bird feeder, and sure enough, orioles started landing on the flat top and drinking out of the hummingbird feeder. Recently, a female downy woodpecker, after feeding at the peanut feeder, hops over to the flat top roof of the old feeder and drinks out of the hummingbird feeder. Has anyone else ever seen this? --part1_1d7.d790a1e.2c43ea71_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I situated a hummingbird feeder over an old flat toppe= d bird feeder, and sure enough, orioles started landing on the flat top and=20= drinking out of the hummingbird feeder.  Recently, a female downy woodp= ecker, after feeding at the peanut feeder, hops over to the flat top roof of= the old feeder and drinks out of the hummingbird feeder.  Has anyone e= lse ever seen this?  --part1_1d7.d790a1e.2c43ea71_boundary-- From two-jays@att.net Tue Jul 15 00:35:48 2003 From: two-jays@att.net (Jim Williams) Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 16:35:48 -0700 Subject: [mou] nest boxes on military land? Message-ID: ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Eberly" To: Sent: Monday, July 14, 2003 12:42 PM Subject: Bluebird box trails on military lands > Hello All. > I am looking for any information about bluebird box trails on military lands in the US. If you know of any, can you please email me? If possible, include installation name and location, and a POC (with phone or email). Thanks for your help! > > Best regards, > Chris > > -- > Chris Eberly > Dept. of Defense Partners in Flight > PO Box 54 > The Plains VA 20198-0054 > > *Shipping & Street address: > 4249 Loudoun Ave. > The Plains VA 20198 > 540-253-5675 / fax 540-253-5782 > mailto:ceberly@dodpif.org http://www.dodpif.org > > "Drink Shade Grown Coffee. It's For The Birds!" forward by Jim Williams, Wayzata, Minnesota From Bridget_Olson@fws.gov Mon Jul 14 17:11:32 2003 From: Bridget_Olson@fws.gov (Bridget_Olson@fws.gov) Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 10:11:32 -0600 Subject: [mou] Bear River Refuge Bird Survey Message-ID: Hello Minnesota Bird Friends, Thought I'd drop you a note as promised and tell you about the birds at Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge near Brigham City, Utah. Hope to see some of you at the upcoming Shorebird Workshop at Big Stone Refuge in August! Waterbird/Raptor Survey Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge Box Elder County 7/10/03 White-faced Ibis young have fledged. First Western and Clark's Grebe young were observed hitching a ride this week, also first Forster's Tern chicks. Western Sandpiper numbers in the 10's of 1,000's. First observation of both Yellowlegs' species and migrant Marbled Godwits. The Refuge is down to 7 wetland units with water remaining out of 26 due to drought conditions. It is likely that at least 3 of those will dry out by end of July. Canada Goose 2424 Mallard 1168 Northern Pintail 181 BW Teal 3 GW Teal 506 Cinnamon Teal 1591 N. Shoveler 170 Gadwall 2178 Canvasback 704 Redhead 200 Common Goldeneye 2 Ruddy Duck 2005 Pied-billed Grebe 16 Eared Grebe 17 Western Grebe 132 Clark's Grebe 68 A. W. Pelican 3070 DC Cormorant 101 Great Blue Heron 91 Great Egret 15 Snowy Egret 267 Cattle Egret 3 BC Night Heron 35 WF Ibis 14910 Snowy Plover 4 Killdeer 59 BN Stilt 3412 American Avocet 1766 Willet 4 Spotted Sandpiper 14 Greater Yellowlegs 5 Lesser Yellowlegs 22 Long-Billed Curlew 6 Marbled Godwit 1020 Western Sandpiper 22819 Dowitcher Species 7 Common Snipe 1 Wilson's Phalarope 602 Franklin's Gull 2012 California Gull 220 Caspian Tern 40 Forster's Tern 92 Virginia Rail 1 Sora 3 Am. coot 7827 Sandhill Crane 11 Turkey Vulture 2 Northern Harrier 1 Red-Tailed Hawk 5 Bridget Olson Wildlife Biologist Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge 58 S. 950 W. Brigham City, UT 84302 Phone: 435/723-5887 ext. 13 Fax: 435/723-8873 From Mark.Alt@BestBuy.com Tue Jul 15 22:29:40 2003 From: Mark.Alt@BestBuy.com (Alt, Mark) Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 16:29:40 -0500 Subject: [mou] FW: Downtown Peregrines Message-ID: > I ride the bus to work now. I have always wanted to do the "green" = thing and now that I work in Richfield, I do and I love it. I wait at = Marquette and 6th until the express 576 takes me south to begin my day. = It just so happens that Marquette and 6th is the prime vantage point to = see Peregrines on the Multifoods tower. I have watched them every week = since May. Last Tuesday, July 8th, an adult put on a flying clinic, = soaring up into a stall about 100 feet above the top of the tower on = the north side, using the strong winds to climb straight up , then he = would veer sharply to the right, tuck into a half stoop, wings forming a = narrow "W", and bomb past an immature bird sitting near the nest box on = the east side. He would then open his wings in a full soar, veer left = and up and float back to its original position above the north side. If = the bird was a sky writer, there would have been an elongated ellipse = scribed in the air. I saw this move repeated twice, and decided to = time it on my stopwatch. In the middle of what appeared to be a third = such move, the bird leaned right and continued out of sight behind the = tower. It emerged a few seconds later and soared up to its holding = point hovering on the heavy gusts above the north side. From the time = it stooped until it was back up in position soaring it took 6.2 seconds. = I estimate the Multifoods tower to be 150 feet long on each side. I = estimate the path of the falcon was about 50 feet beyond the building on = average in its flight. The perimeter of a circle with a radius of 125 = feet is 785 feet. The bird appeared to travel 150 feet vertical down to = the perched juvenile and then back up to soar again, so the total = distance traveled was about 1000 feet in 6.2 seconds. If my conversions = are right, this amounts to an average speed of 110 mph. It was a = breathtakingly awesome display of flight. It seemed to me the adult was = "showing off" to entice or train the juvenile. The birds have not been = present the past two days, so I assume they are off flying somewhere. I = miss them.=20 >=20 > Mark Alt > Brooklyn Center, MN > mark.alt@bestbuy.com >=20 > "Birds and their songs are important to me, they add to my enjoyment = of life"=20 >=20 From BXWilliams@CBBURNET.COM Wed Jul 16 14:25:09 2003 From: BXWilliams@CBBURNET.COM (Williams, Bob) Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 08:25:09 -0500 Subject: [mou] Feisty Henslow's Sparrow at Pet Trails Message-ID: <954398EF1F830749868583446DBCE7EB1290153E@min-nrt-exch1.min.nrtinc.nrt> This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPartTM-000-f2ff6cfa-9e05-4958-a88c-49b067b677d8 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----_=_NextPart_001_01C34B9D.ADD302B8" ------_=_NextPart_001_01C34B9D.ADD302B8 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Took a walk at the Pet Trails, Murphy-Hanrehan, Scott County yesterday afternoon. We were looking more for dragonflies(saw 10 species), butterflies(not a lot) and wild- Flowers(nice variety), but we did have an encounter with one of the Henslow's Sparrows That we won't soon forget. The bird was on the east side of the path between 31 and 32, Which is in the area where I first heard one this spring. As we approached the bird it Became very agitated and flew from perch to perch giving us some wonderful looks. I can only assume that the bird was defending something(a nest?) that was quite=20 close to the path. As we walked on, the bird did drop down into the grass not far=20 east of the path.=20 Bob Williams, Bloomington =20 ------_=_NextPart_001_01C34B9D.ADD302B8 Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

        = ;    Took a walk at the Pet Trails, Murphy-Hanrehan, = Scott = County yesterday afternoon.

        = ;    We were looking more for dragonflies(saw 10 = species), butterflies(not a lot) and wild-

        = ;    Flowers(nice variety), but we did have an encounter = with one of the Henslow’s = Sparrows

        = ;    That we won’t soon forget.  = The bird was on the east side of the path between 31 and = 32,

        = ;    Which is in the area where I first heard one this = spring.  As we approached the bird = it

        = ;    Became very agitated and flew from perch to perch giving us some wonderful = looks.

 I can only assume that the bird = was defending something(a nest?) that was quite =

close to the path.  As we walked on, the = bird did drop down into the grass not far

east of the path.

Bob Williams, = Bloomington

 

=00 ------_=_NextPart_001_01C34B9D.ADD302B8-- ------=_NextPartTM-000-f2ff6cfa-9e05-4958-a88c-49b067b677d8-- From fredericksonr@willmar.k12.mn.us Thu Jul 17 16:59:31 2003 From: fredericksonr@willmar.k12.mn.us (fredericksonr@willmar.k12.mn.us) Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 09:59:31 -0600 Subject: [mou] conservation FW: ACTION NEEDED TO HELP PROTECT AMERICA'S RAINFOREST Message-ID: =46riends- This is a conservation issue, as well as a political one. I did want to forward it just to keep people appraised and offer them the option of voicing their opinions. I have not included mine. Randy Frederickson MOU conservation committee > >> [Original Message] >> From: Alaska Rainforest Campaign >> To: >> Date: 7/15/2003 11:28:46 AM >> Subject: ACTION NEEDED TO HELP PROTECT AMERICA'S RAINFOREST >> >> >> BATTLE TO PROTECT AMERICA=EDS RAINFOREST HEATS UP ON TWO FRONTS >> >> FROM THE WHITE HOUSE =F1 >> Today the Bush administration bowed to corporate special interests and >moved to strip America's Rainforest from the landmark Roadless Rule. A >public comment period is open through August 14, 2003. >> >> ON CAPITOL HILL =F1 >> The U.S. House of Representatives is set to vote, as early as tomorrow, >on a Roadless Amendment to keep the Roadless Rule intact! >> >> TAKE ACTION: >> >> 1. Tell the Bush Administration you oppose their plans to exempt the >Tongass and Chugach National Forests in Alaska from the Roadless Rule. Send >an email today online: www.akrain.org! (Information about alternative ways >to comment is included at the bottom of this alert.) >> >> 2. Call (1-800-839-5276 or 202-224-3121) your U.S. Representative and ask >them to vote YES on the Roadless Rule Amendment to protect America=EDs >rainforest in Alaska! >> >> >> THE ISSUE: >> Today, the Bush administration took the first procedural swipe at the >landmark Roadless Area Conservation Rule by proposing to strip protections >from America=EDs rainforest in Alaska =F1 fully one-quarter of the lands >protected by the Rule. The official notice appeared in the Federal Register >and kicks off two, simultaneous 30-day public comment periods on the >administration=EDs proposed exemptions of the Tongass and Chugach National >Forests in Alaska from the Roadless Rule. >> >> The Rainforest comment periods are the first opportunity the public has >to officially comment on the Bush administration's attempts to gut the >Roadless Rule. The administration is also expected, later this year, to >propose to allow state governors to apply for exemptions from the Roadless >Rule in their states. During development of the Rule, 2.2 million public >comments were received in favor of enacting the conservation policy. More >Americans took part in this rulemaking process than in any other federal >rulemaking in history. Yet despite pledges to uphold the Roadless Rule, the >Bush administration is moving to dismantle it. >> >> In anticipation of the Roadless Rule exemptions, the administration has >already been planning for more industrial-scale logging in the Tongass. It >has already scheduled close to 50 timber sales in roadless areas protected >the Rule. These sales would effectively take the best of what=EDs left in t= he >Tongass. Over 70 percent of the biggest and best trees have already been >clearcut in the Tongass. >> >> In Congress =F1 Members of the U.S. House of Representatives will, as ear= ly >as tomorrow, have the opportunity to vote in support of the popular >Roadless Rule. Leaders in the House are expected to offer an amendment to >the Department of Interior Appropriations Bill that would limit the Bush >administration=EDs ability to undermine the Roadless Rule. >> >> ALTERNATIVE WAYS TO COMMENT ON THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION=EDS PROPOSALS: >> >> Be sure to send copies of your letters to each address listed so that it >will be counted for each of the two simultaneous official comment periods! >> >> EMAIL: >> * roadlesstnf@fs.fed.us >> ** roadlessanpr@fs.fed.us >> >> MAIL TO: >> * Roadless TNF, Content Analysis Team, USDA Forest Service, P.O. Box >22810, Salt Lake City, UT 84122 >> ** Roadless ANPR, USFS Content Analysis Team, P.O. Box 22777, Salt Lake >City, UT 84122 >> >> FAX: >> * (801) 880-2808 >> ** (801) 880-3311 >> >> *Addresses for comments on the proposed temporary regulation of the >Tongass National Forest from the Roadless Rule >> **Addresses for comments on the advanced notice of public rulemaking >proposing to permanently exempt the Tongass from the Roadless Rule and >extend the exemption to include the Chugach National Forest. >> >> >> SAMPLE LETTER: >> Dear Chief Dale Bosworth, >> >> I strongly support the Roadless Area Conservation Rule as it was issued >in January 2001 and oppose the proposed exemptions of the Tongass and >Chugach National Forests, our nation=EDs two largest national forests, from >the Roadless Area Conservation Rule. >> >> The Roadless Rule, a landmark conservation policy, has the overwhelming >support of the American people. Safeguarding our wild forests from road >building, commercial logging, mining and drilling benefits everyone >including those who hunt, fish, hike, camp and recreate on these public >lands. To exempt America=EDs rainforest =F1 one-quarter of our nation=EDs >roadless forests =F1 from protection is unwarranted and unwanted. >> >> Please accept this as my official comment opposing the proposed temporary >exemption of the Tongass National Forest from the Roadless Rule and the >advance notice of proposed rulemaking to make permanent the Tongass >exemption and extend it to the Chugach National Forest (36 CFR Parts 219 >and 294). >> >> Sincerely, >> >> *** >> >> Thank you for taking action! If you have any questions please contact >Laurie Cooper (laurie@alaskacoalition.org). >> >> If at anytime you wish to unsubscribe please visit >http://www.akrain.org/howtohelp/default.asp where you can easily remove >yourself from the list. >> >> Thanks for your support. >> >> Alaska Rainforest Campaign Staff. > From Rand.Whillock@honeywell.com Wed Jul 16 20:33:08 2003 From: Rand.Whillock@honeywell.com (Whillock, Rand (MN65)) Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 14:33:08 -0500 Subject: [mou] Downy woodpecker at my hummingbird feeder Message-ID: This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C34BD1.15EF7AD0 Content-Type: text/plain I was recently watching an oriole feeder in Green Bay Wisconsin when a red bellied woodpecker landed and started drinking. It was quite humorous to see this large bird barley able to cling to the small perch, but it found a way to get a drink. -----Original Message----- From: Xlntartist@aol.com [mailto:Xlntartist@aol.com] Sent: Monday, July 14, 2003 6:14 AM To: mou-net@cbs.umn.edu Subject: [mou] Downy woodpecker at my hummingbird feeder I situated a hummingbird feeder over an old flat topped bird feeder, and sure enough, orioles started landing on the flat top and drinking out of the hummingbird feeder. Recently, a female downy woodpecker, after feeding at the peanut feeder, hops over to the flat top roof of the old feeder and drinks out of the hummingbird feeder. Has anyone else ever seen this? ------_=_NextPart_001_01C34BD1.15EF7AD0 Content-Type: text/html Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

I was recently watching an oriole feeder in = Green Bay Wisconsin when a = red bellied woodpecker landed and started drinking. It was quite humorous = to see this large bird barley able to cling to the small perch, but it found a = way to get a drink.

 

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-----Original = Message-----
From: Xlntartist@aol.com [mailto:Xlntartist@aol.com]
Sent: = Monday, July 14, = 2003 6:14 AM
To: = mou-net@cbs.umn.edu
Subject: [mou] Downy = woodpecker at my hummingbird feeder

 

I situated a hummingbird = feeder over an old flat topped bird feeder, and sure enough, orioles started = landing on the flat top and drinking out of the hummingbird feeder.  Recently, a = female downy woodpecker, after feeding at the peanut feeder, hops over to the = flat top roof of the old feeder and drinks out of the hummingbird feeder.  = Has anyone else ever seen this? 

------_=_NextPart_001_01C34BD1.15EF7AD0-- From axhertzel@sihope.com Fri Jul 18 01:08:45 2003 From: axhertzel@sihope.com (Anthony X. Hertzel) Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 19:08:45 -0500 Subject: [mou] MOU RBA 17 July 2003 Message-ID: This is the Minnesota Birding Report for Thursday July 17th. On July 12th, Oscar Johnson found a LITTLE BLUE HERON at French Lake near Dayton in northwestern Hennepin County. The bird was seen along the west edge of the lake from East French Lake Road and it is quite possible that it is still in the area. The July 12th shorebird survey at Agassiz NWR in Marshall County recorded 1707 birds of about 17 species at various ponds and feeding areas within the refuge. Birds recorded included SEMIPALMATED PLOVER, AMERICAN AVOCET, SOLITARY SANDPIPER, STILT SANDPIPER, SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER, and several probable and very early LONG-BILLED DOWITCHERS. Also on the 12th, LESSER YELLOWLEGS, LEAST SANDPIPERS, SOLITARY SANDPIPERS, and SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER were in Meeker County feeding in the flooded fields one mile west of Cedar Mills at the junction of state highway 7 and 610th Avenue. As many as twelve BLACK-THROATED BLUE WARBLERS were heard singing on or west of Moose Mountain near Lutsen in Cook County on July 12th. This species typically can be found in this area into mid-August. Both YELLOW RAILS and SHARP-TAILED SPARROWS were found singing at two locations on July 13th. The first location was the Neal WMA in southeastern Norman County east of highway 32 on county road 39. This is the same area where more than 50 Yellow Rails were heard last May 23rd. Birds were also calling at the Waubun WMA in southwestern Mahnomen County. Go one mile west of highway 59 on county road 113, then two miles south, then west on the dead end road. On July 13th a potential first county record HENSLOW'S SPARROW was found in Todd County in a field east of Cedar Lake. Cedar Lake is south of Long Prairie on highway 71. To get to the field take the road on the north side of Cedar Lake going east from highway 71 for a few miles to 231st Avenue. The bird was at this intersection in the northwestern field. And finally, a very out of range bird was the July 13th EASTERN TOWHEE heard singing at the Bonanza Unit of Big Stone State Park in Big Stone County. This state-wide birding report is brought to you and financially supported by the Minnesota Ornithologists' Union (MOU). The MOU is Minnesota's oldest and largest bird club. The report is composed from observations generously submitted by MOU members and other birders throughout the state. You can support this weekly update by submitting your bird reports to Anthony Hertzel at axhertzel@sihope.com or by calling the hotline directly at 763-780-8890 and leaving a detailed message. MOU members receive this report directly on MOU-net, the club's free e-mail listservice, which is available to anyone interested. For information contact David Cahlander at . MOU members receive the organization's quarterly journal "The Loon" and the bimonthly magazine, "Minnesota Birding". For membership information, send an e-mail message to our membership secretary at moumembers@yahoo.com. In cooperation with the Minnesota Office of Tourism, highlights of this hotline can be now heard at a toll free number which is available to callers outside the Twin Cities area. The number is 1-800-657-3700. The MOU is pleased to offer this service. Thank you, and good birding. The next scheduled update of this tape is Thursday, July 24th. -- Anthony Hertzel -- axhertzel@sihope.com From drbenson@cpinternet.com Fri Jul 18 02:57:38 2003 From: drbenson@cpinternet.com (David R. Benson) Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 19:57:38 -0600 Subject: [mou] Duluth RBA 7/17/03 Message-ID: This is the Duluth Birding Report for Thursday, July 17th, 2003, sponsored by the Minnesota Ornithologists' Union. Fall migration of shorebirds is well underway. Janet Riegle reported 2 STILT SANDPIPERS, 1 PECTORAL SANDPIPER, 1 BAIRD'S SANDPIPER, 12 LEAST SANDPIPERS, 1 SEMI-PALMATED SANDPIPER, 1 GREATER YELLOWLEGS, and 5 LESSER YELLOWLEGS at 40th Ave West on the 13th. In addition, she found a Dowitcher there on the 15th. Mike Steffes found 12 singing BLACK-THROATED BLUE WARBLERS at Moose Mountain in Cook County on the 12th. The next scheduled update of this report will be Thursday, July 24th. The phone number for the Duluth Birding Report is (218) 728-5030, and callers can report bird sightings if they wish after the tone at the end of each tape. The Duluth Birding Report is sponsored and funded by the Minnesota Ornithologists' Union (MOU) as a service to its members. For more information on the MOU, either write us c/o the Bell Museum of Natural History, 10 Church Street SE, Minneapolis MN 55455; or send an e-mail to mou@cbs.umn.edu; or visit the MOU web site at mou.mn.org. From ajjoppru@wiktel.com Fri Jul 18 03:45:48 2003 From: ajjoppru@wiktel.com (Jeanie Joppru) Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 21:45:48 -0500 Subject: [mou] Northwest Minnesota Birding Report- Friday, July 18, 2003 Message-ID: <000901c34cd6$c109e7b0$8bb391ce@main> This is the Northwest Minnesota Birding Report for Friday, July 18, 2003 sponsored by the Detroit Lakes Regional Chamber of Commerce. You may also hear this report by calling (218) 847-5743 or 1-800-433-1888. It hardly seems possible but the southward migration has undeniably begun as the first returning shorebirds are being seen in increasing numbers. The recent survey of shorebirds numbers at Agassiz National Wildlife Refuge revealed only slightly fewer shorebirds than last week and the same number of species. A total of 1707 birds were tallied of 16 or 17 species. At Agassiz NWR in Marshall County, of particular interest were 7 probable LONG-BILLED DOWITCHERS, July 12 being an early date for them. Other shorebirds seen there included 3 AMERICAN AVOCETS, at least one of which was clearly a juvenile bird. SEMIPALMATED PLOVER, SOLITARY SANDPIPER, STILT SANDPIPER, and SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHERS were also there. I caught a glimpse of the EURASIAN COLLARED-DOVE at Northwest Technical College in Thief River Falls, Pennington County, tonight as I drove home from work. This bird is somewhat hard to locate but can be heard cooing if one is in the right neighborhood. A MERLIN was observed perched on a power pole along Johnson Drive also. Pat Rice reported 2 EVENING GROSBEAKS at her feeder in Bemidji, Beltrami County, on July 11th. She also had PURPLE FINCHES with young. There were many RUBY-THROATED HUMMINGBIRDS at the feeders also. In Norman County, Dennis Martin found YELLOW RAILS and NELSON'S SHARP-TAILED SPARROWS at the Neal WMA, over 2 miles east of Highway 32 on County Road 39. The same species were found in Mahnomen County one mile west of Highway 59 on CR 113, and two miles south, then west on the dead end road. As of July 12th , these birds were still singing. At least one of the COMMON MOORHENS in Becker County at Hamden Slough NWR was seen on two occasions this week. Nancy Jackson was birding in Clay County on July 12th, and reported two UPLAND SANDPIPERS and a family of GREATER PRAIRIE-CHICKENS at Felton Prairie. She also reported a RED-HEADED WOODPECKER on the Ottertail-Wadena County line on July 9th. In Ottertail County, on July 13th, Nancy Jackson reported a BLACK-BILLED CUCKOO, and on the 15th, BLACK TERNS. Alma Ronningen had a NORTHERN CARDINAL in her yard on July 15th, and at Lake Alice rookery in Fergus Falls, she reported DOUBLE-CRESTED CORMORANTS,GREAT EGRETS, GREEN HERONS, and BLACK-CROWNED NIGHT-HERONS. Dave Sorgen reported nesting YELLOW WARBLER, AMERICAN REDSTART, and COMMON YELLOWTHROAT, and many other summer resident species. Thanks to Nancy Jackson, Alma Ronningen, Dennis Martin, and Pat Rice for their reports. Please report bird sightings to Jeanie Joppru by email, no later than Thursday each week, at ajjoppru@wiktel.com OR call the Detroit Lakes Chamber's toll free number: 1-800-542-3992. Detroit Lakes area birders please call 847-9202. Please include the county where the sighting took place. When reporting by email please put "NW Bird Report" in the subject line of your message. The next scheduled update of this report is Friday, July 25, 2003. From george.skinner@gte.net Fri Jul 18 04:28:30 2003 From: george.skinner@gte.net (George B Skinner) Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 22:28:30 -0500 Subject: [mou] Least Bittern, Hennepin Co., Old Cedar Ave. Bridge Message-ID: <001701c34cdc$d32c0760$6782fb43@computer> This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_000F_01C34CB2.BFBE1120 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable While leading a wildlife walk for the Minnesota Valley National Wildlife = refuge and the Minnesota River Valley Audubon Chapter I had good looks = at a Least Bittern. The time was 7:20 pm. I saw the Least Bittern from = the observation deck at the end of the boardwalk that is a few hundred = yards west of the old bridge. The bird was calling as it flew south, = parallel with the boardwalk. It landed in the cattails just south of the = deck. It then made several short low flights above the cattails. The = last flight caused a small cloud of Barn Swallows to follow the bittern = and buzz the area that the bittern landed in. Everyone in the group got to see it. The bird was very striking in the = low evening light. George Skinner, Minnetonka, MN ------=_NextPart_000_000F_01C34CB2.BFBE1120 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
While leading a wildlife walk for the Minnesota = Valley=20 National Wildlife refuge and the Minnesota River Valley Audubon Chapter = I had=20 good looks at a Least Bittern. The time was 7:20 = pm. I=20 saw the Least Bittern from the observation deck at the end of the = boardwalk=20 that is a few hundred yards west of the old bridge. The bird was calling = as it=20 flew south, parallel with the boardwalk. It landed in the = cattails=20 just south of the deck. It then made several short low flights above the = cattails. The last flight caused a small cloud of Barn Swallows to = follow the=20 bittern and buzz the area that the bittern landed in.
 
Everyone in the group got to see it. The bird was = very=20 striking in the low evening light.
 
George Skinner,
Minnetonka, MN
 
 
------=_NextPart_000_000F_01C34CB2.BFBE1120-- From chetmeyers@visi.com Sat Jul 19 02:02:06 2003 From: chetmeyers@visi.com (Chet Meyers) Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2003 20:02:06 -0500 Subject: [mou] Salt Lake shorebirds Message-ID: <20030719010207.1D30F7A926@taranis.mc.mpls.visi.com> Today Keith Olstad and I birded Lac Qui Parle and Big Stone counties. Big Stone Refuge has so much water in it there were very few shorebirds to be seen. Our best stop was at Salt Lake in Lac Qui Parle county where we saw ten (10) shorebird species, including: killdeer, lesser yellow legs (many), greater yellow legs (one), least sandpiper (many), semi-palmated sandpiper (one), short billed dowitcher, pectoral sandpiper (one with a nice dark 'bib'), solitary sandpiper, spotted sandpiper, and Wilson's phalarope. Many formerly flooded fields were dry, but most lakes were brim-full. Not the best conditions for shorebirds habitat. Chet Meyers Hennepin County From cfagyal@broadbandusa.cc Sat Jul 19 19:33:25 2003 From: cfagyal@broadbandusa.cc (Chris Fagyal) Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2003 13:33:25 -0500 Subject: [mou] Shorebirds near Cedar Mills Message-ID: <000101c34e24$3de4cd60$6401a8c0@mcsi.cc> This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0002_01C34DFA.550EC560 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On a whim I decided to check out the shorebird habitat at 610th St 1mi west of Cedar Mills in Meeker Cty. I was hoping for White-faced Ibis (showed up there last year) but alas It was not to be. However, there were loads of shorebirds there. At least 150-200 total with the following species present: Least Sandpiper Semipalmated Sandpiper Stilt Sandpiper Baird's Sandpiper Lesser Yellowlegs Greater Yellowlegs Pectoral Sandpiper Solitary Sandpiper No Dowitcher unfortunately like was reported last weekend. Driving back towards town I wandered through New Germany to discovered everything around yancy/yale was super high in terms of water levels (no shorebirds). I also checked Cty Rd 32 and Cty Rd 30 east of New Germany. No flooded fields yet. As I was heading up McCloud Cty Rd 1 however, on my way towards New Germany I had an Upland Sandpiper perched on a power line. Chris ------=_NextPart_000_0002_01C34DFA.550EC560 Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

On a whim I decided to check out the shorebird = habitat at 610th St 1mi west of Cedar Mills in = Meeker Cty.  = I was hoping for White-faced Ibis (showed up there last year) but alas It was not to be.  However, there were loads of shorebirds there.  At least 150-200 total with the following species present:

 

Least Sandpiper

Semipalmated = Sandpiper

Stilt Sandpiper

Baird’s Sandpiper

Lesser Yellowlegs

Greater Yellowlegs

Pectoral Sandpiper

Solitary Sandpiper

 

No Dowitcher = unfortunately like was reported last weekend.

 

Driving back towards town I wandered through New = Germany to discovered everything around yancy/yale was super high in terms of water levels (no shorebirds).  I also checked Cty Rd 32 and Cty Rd 30 east of New = Germany.  No flooded fields yet.  As I was heading up McCloud = Cty Rd 1 however, on my way towards New Germany I = had an Upland Sandpiper perched on a power line.

 

Chris

 

 

------=_NextPart_000_0002_01C34DFA.550EC560-- From WWoessner@aol.com Sat Jul 19 21:36:34 2003 From: WWoessner@aol.com (WWoessner@aol.com) Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:36:34 EDT Subject: [mou] Henslow's Sparrow/Summer Tanager refound Message-ID: <25.3befa618.2c4b05d2@aol.com> --part1_25.3befa618.2c4b05d2_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Late this am (Sat) I went out to Murphy Hanrehan, and after I figured out how to find marker 31 on the riding/pet trails, I did refind the Henslow's sparrow as reported by Bob Williams on 7/16. It was tee'd up on a weekstalk about 50 feet to the south of the trail past marker 31, and "singing". It's ventriloquistical voice had me looking right next to the trial for a while. To find marker 31, walk straight across the picnic grounds by the horse trial parking lot. You will see marker 30..bear left, up the hill until you see 31. Bear left at that fork and go about 100 yds. I then went in at marker 14, walked to 15 past a Scarlet Tanager toward 16 and refound the male Summer Tanager as described nicely byBob Dunlap on 7/1. It was circling the far end of the opening and was carrrying food, so it is nesting with some tanager, tho I did not see a female. Good birding Warren Woessner --part1_25.3befa618.2c4b05d2_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Late this am (Sat) I went out to Murphy=20= Hanrehan, and after I figured out how to find marker 31 on the riding/pet tr= ails, I did refind the Henslow's sparrow as reported by Bob Williams on 7/16= . It was tee'd up on a weekstalk about 50 feet to the south of the trail pas= t marker 31, and "singing". It's ventriloquistical voice had me looking righ= t next to the trial for a while. To find marker 31, walk straight across the= picnic grounds by the horse trial parking lot. You will see marker 30..bear= left, up the hill until you see 31. Bear left at that fork and go about 100= yds.
I then went in at marker 14, walked to 15 past a Scarlet Tanager toward 16 a= nd refound the male Summer Tanager as described nicely byBob Dunlap on 7/1.=20= It was circling the far end of the opening and was carrrying food, so it is=20= nesting with some tanager, tho I did not see a female.
Good birding
Warren Woessner
 --part1_25.3befa618.2c4b05d2_boundary-- From swisstea@gctel.com Sun Jul 20 02:57:35 2003 From: swisstea@gctel.com (Susan McKechnie Wiste) Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2003 20:57:35 -0500 Subject: [mou] Goldfinch song Message-ID: <001101c34e62$4aacb560$203492ce@jhkl501> This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_000E_01C34E38.611E0BC0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable As I was looking at an adult male Goldfinch in my garden this morning, I = was astonished when it started doing a pretty good imitation of a Phoebe = - albeit in a thin high "voice." I do have Phoebes nesting in the yard = - is it out of the question that he could have been mimicking the Phoebe = or is it just a fluke?? Susan Wiste Alexandria ------=_NextPart_000_000E_01C34E38.611E0BC0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
As I was looking at an adult male = Goldfinch in=20 my garden this morning, I was astonished when it started doing a pretty = good=20 imitation of a Phoebe - albeit in a thin high "voice."  I do have = Phoebes=20 nesting in the yard - is it out of the question that he could have been=20 mimicking the Phoebe or is it just a fluke??
 
Susan Wiste
Alexandria
------=_NextPart_000_000E_01C34E38.611E0BC0-- From nwinters@isd.net Sun Jul 20 04:11:43 2003 From: nwinters@isd.net (Ned Winters) Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2003 22:11:43 -0500 Subject: [mou] Probable Long-billed Dowitchers Message-ID: Ken Larson called me this evening to report that he is 95% certain that he found 2 Long-billed Dowitchers just north of the Larson's Prairie Marsh Farm in Lac Qui Parle County. Directions are: On Hwy 212 go seven miles west of Hwy 75 and turn south. The turn on 212 is at mile marker 5 just before you cross a bridge. Go south about one mile and look to the west side of the road for a small pond in a cattle pasture. Ken also noted many other species of shorebirds at this location. Ned Winters Bloomington, Hennepin Co. nwinters@isd.net From two-jays@att.net Sun Jul 20 22:43:52 2003 From: two-jays@att.net (Jim Williams) Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2003 14:43:52 -0700 Subject: [mou] Migration note In-Reply-To: Message-ID: forward by Jim Williams, Wayzata ---------- > From: "John Idzikowski" > Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2003 13:33:22 -0500 > To: "Wisconsin Birding Network" > Subject: [WISBIRDN] :Migration note > > Just to mark the date for fall field note purposes and for those of you in > southern Wisconsin who have already heard the chips of juv Tennessees in the > trees, the first night of fall migration as shown by Nexrad radar detections > was just after the passage of the cold front on Thursday, the 17th; the > night of 17-18 and 18-19 showed a weak migration that slowed dramatically > after midnight on both nights. > > http://my.execpc.com/~idzikoj/nex718-1903.jpg > > Last night on this SW flow there was nothing except lots of night flying-bug > detections. Another cold front is due tonight > > John Idzikowski, Milwaukee > > > ############################################################# > This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to > the mailing list . > To unsubscribe, E-mail to: > To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to > To switch to the INDEX mode, E-mail to > Send administrative queries to > From axhertzel@sihope.com Sun Jul 20 22:09:32 2003 From: axhertzel@sihope.com (Anthony X. Hertzel) Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2003 16:09:32 -0500 Subject: [mou] Bewick's Wren Message-ID: Longtime MOU member Helen Tucker of Millville, Wabasha County found a Bewick's Wren today near her home. Birders are welcome to visit, but please be respectful of the residential situation. From U.S. Highway 52 and state highway 60, go east on 60 and after crossing U.S. Highway 63 look for mile marker 199. Turn south on County Road 2 into Millville and drive to the far end of Main Street. Turn left just past the two brick houses, then turn north to the 100 block of Bench Street. -- Anthony Hertzel -- axhertzel@sihope.com From two-jays@att.net Mon Jul 21 01:05:15 2003 From: two-jays@att.net (Jim Williams) Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2003 17:05:15 -0700 Subject: [mou] Conservation through birding -- CTB SUMMIT SEPT 11th In-Reply-To: <003701c34efd$9ab2fe20$6401a8c0@Windingstadh> Message-ID: This is an important meeting for all concerned about the conservation of birds. CTB stands for Conservation through Birding. It is a national grass-roots organization in its fledgling stage. It can be an important player in the growing movement to alert more birders -- all birders -- to the need to move conservation to the front rank of efforts of organizations like the MOU. Plan to attend. I can supply detail to anyone interested. Also check the CTB web site at www.conservationthroughbirding.org Jim Williams Wayzata ---------- > From: "Ron Windingstad" > Reply-To: Conservationthroughbirding@yahoogroups.com > Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2003 15:29:22 -0500 > To: > Subject: [Conservationthroughbirding] CTB SUMMIT _ SEPT 11th > > Hope many of you will be able to attend the CTB Summit on September 11th , in > Green Bay! I know it will be serving as a foundation for many future > discussions and actions moving CTB further along the path in our bird > conservation efforts! > > As I said I hope most of you can attend. Whether you are able to or not, I > think it would be good for each of us to send the link of > http://www.conservationthroughbirding.org/purpose.html to five or more > colleagues, friends or acquaintances. We can each put it in newsletters, list > serves etc to promote the summit AND CTB! > And remember those of you staying for the Midwest Birding Symposium to make > your reservations early as the Packers have a home game on Sunday. We tried to > have them switch their schedule around but they wouldn't go for it. Guess they > just have their priorities turned around. > > By the end of this week we will have the speaker positions filled and bios on > each of them! > > Regards > Ron Windingstad From swisstea@gctel.com Sun Jul 20 23:38:33 2003 From: swisstea@gctel.com (Susan McKechnie Wiste) Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2003 17:38:33 -0500 Subject: [mou] Little Blue Heron - Douglas Co MN Message-ID: <003a01c34f0f$a6f6c600$333492ce@jhkl501> This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0037_01C34EE5.BD914F40 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable John Ellis just called and asked me to post this asap: He has found a Little Blue Heron in the nw corner of Douglas Co near = the Grant Co line. To fine the bird exit I-94 at Evansville and take Co Rd 82 nw to Co = Rd 19. Go south on 19 to its intersection with Whisper Lane. Turn east = on Whisper Lane (a dead-end) and go 1/2 mile until you see a large sign = for Bah Lake WPA. As I understand it the bird is in the nw corner of = this intersection in a wetland with a lot of stumps. Susan Wiste Alexandria ------=_NextPart_000_0037_01C34EE5.BD914F40 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
John Ellis just called and asked me = to post this=20 asap:
    He has found a = Little Blue=20 Heron in the nw corner of Douglas Co near the Grant Co = line.
 
    To fine the bird = exit I-94 at=20 Evansville and take Co Rd 82 nw to Co Rd 19.  Go south on 19 to its = intersection with Whisper Lane.  Turn east on Whisper Lane (a = dead-end) and=20 go 1/2 mile until you see a large sign for Bah Lake WPA.  As I = understand=20 it the bird is in the nw corner of this intersection in a wetland with a = lot of=20 stumps.
 
Susan Wiste
Alexandria
------=_NextPart_000_0037_01C34EE5.BD914F40-- From JELLISBIRD@aol.com Mon Jul 21 04:11:35 2003 From: JELLISBIRD@aol.com (JELLISBIRD@aol.com) Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2003 23:11:35 EDT Subject: [mou] Little Blue Heron-Douglas Cnty/ Common Moorhen-Hamden Slough Message-ID: <4e.1f747247.2c4cb3e7@aol.com> This afternoon about 4:30 I found a small white heron with blue/grey mottling in a wetland in NW Douglas County. The legs were greenish grey. The bill was light grey with a darker grey (almost black) tip. The eye pupil was black and the iris was light grey or whitish. There was blue/grey mottling on the top of the head, the cheeks, pronounced on the upper back and the trailing edge of the wing which appeared almost black in some views. It was about 50-60% of the size of a Great Egret which was there for comparison. The location is as follows: go south on Douglas County 19 from Douglas County 82 (Just East of Pelican Lake). This is the west edge of Douglas County. At a four way intersection (with a large sign announcing Bah Lakes WPA in the SW quadrant) take a left on Whisper Lane, a dead end going east. Go .4 mile to the wetland on the north with lots of dead trees. The bird was along the north shore of this wetland. I watched it for over an hour and it showed no signs of leaving. Common Moorhen-As of 8:30 or so on Friday evening July 18, at least one of the Common Moorhens at the previously announced location in Hamden Slough NWR was still there. After waiting over an hour, I noticed the bird preening in the edge of the cattails on the E edge of the pond. After 15 minutes it flew out a short way, then foraged out of sight to the north end of the pond. John Ellis- St. Paul From two-jays@att.net Mon Jul 21 22:15:00 2003 From: two-jays@att.net (Jim Williams) Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2003 14:15:00 -0700 Subject: [mou] Midwest Birding Symposium Message-ID: Just a reminder for those of you who are looking to hone some of your bird identification skills or learn more about backyard birdwatching/habitat, and a cadre of other topics you might want to get signed up for the Midwest Birding Symposium September 11-14, 2003. There is a Packer home game on Sunday, September 14th and lodging will be at a premium for Saturday night. The symposium schedule includes talks on birding/photography, hummingbirds, backyard habitat/bird feeding hints, optics, owls, red-headed woodpeckers, gull and raptor identification, as well as fall warbler identification and Prairie chicken conservation. In addition numerous field trips will be held and there will be a marketplace, Special Exhibits and a Silent Auction to raise funds for the Prairie Chickens, good food, and a book signing. Some very notable speakers will be there, including Don & Lillian Stokes, Kenn Kaufmann, John Acorn, Sheri Williamson, Joe and Mary Ann McDonald, Ernesto Ruelos Inzunza, Tom Schultz, Eldon Greij etc. etc. Pre- and post-symposium field trips will be held at Horicon Marsh and Necedah NWR respectively. Those wanting more information about the Symposium can go to http://www.birdersworld.com/brd/default.aspx?c=a&id=137 Also if any one is interested in a pre-symposium Conservation through Birding summit on September 11th 9 AM-4 PM Conservation Through Birding Summit you can check out. http://www.conservationthroughbirding.org/get_involved.html Ron Windingstad Madison forward by Jim Williams From dbmartin@skypoint.com Tue Jul 22 02:54:27 2003 From: dbmartin@skypoint.com (Dennis/Barbara Martin) Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2003 20:54:27 -0500 Subject: [mou] Little Blue Heron-Douglas Cnty References: <4e.1f747247.2c4cb3e7@aol.com> Message-ID: <004101c34ff4$41cd6460$3f2e56c7@oemcomputer> This bird was present this PM in the spot described by John Ellis. If it was there in the AM I either missed it or it was hiding behind one of the stumps as I was unable to find it in three stops there from 8 on. Approx 1/2 mile south of Whisper Lane on the east side of the road there was a adult Snowy Egret present most of the day. It was extremely wairy and would fly often when cars drove down the road. But it would return later on. Approx two miles north of Whisper Lane I saw 4 Cattle Egrets fly over the car heading in the direction of the rookery on Pelican Lake. There must be a great variety in the rookery this year. Dennis Martin dbmartin@skypoint.com From dbmartin@skypoint.com Tue Jul 22 03:10:48 2003 From: dbmartin@skypoint.com (Dennis/Barbara Martin) Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2003 21:10:48 -0500 Subject: [mou] Grant County shorebirds Message-ID: <000401c34ff7$2447af60$709ec7c7@oemcomputer> Two very good spots were found this PM for shorebirds. Hwy 79, 1 mile east of the city limits of Elbow Lake, there were about 500 birds present before the Peregrine disrupted the viewing and mixed everything up. Afterwards there were considerably fewer but the flooded field is huge and will fill up again with shorebirds. 8 species Spink WPA, about 9 miles south of Elbow Lake on Hwy 54, west on Cty Rd 34 6/10s of a mile. A temporarily drained marsh. 10 species, a little over 200 birds but good habitat that will get more birds. As people find good areas please post them for all to enjoy. Dennis Martin dbmartin@skypoint.com From alongtin@worldnet.att.net Tue Jul 22 03:26:31 2003 From: alongtin@worldnet.att.net (Andrew Longtin) Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2003 21:26:31 -0500 Subject: [mou] Hennepin Co. (Corcoran area) Message-ID: <000001c34ff8$a9ead8d0$7348520c@computer> This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0001_01C34FCE.C114D0D0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On my way home from up north Sunday 7/20 I noticed that the SW corner off CR 116 and CR 30 in Corcoran had some shorebirds, I didn't stop but I saw a few along with about 10 Great Egrets, I only went slow enough to be fairly sure that they were all Great Egrets, there is a lot of muddy area for the shore birds to wade in, it might be worth a look.. Andrew -- Andrew Longtin Corcoran (Hennepin Co.) Minnesota Minnesota Ornithologists Union Member http://biosci.cbs.umn.edu/~mou/ Cornell Lab Member (PFW) http://birds.cornell.edu/pfw/ Hardness Zone 4 (climate zone) ALongtin@worldnet.att.net See my WEB pages at http://home.att.net/~alongtin/Index.htm NO SPAM NEEDED HERE!!!! ------=_NextPart_000_0001_01C34FCE.C114D0D0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
On my way=20 home from up north Sunday 7/20 I noticed that the SW corner off CR 116 = and CR 30=20 in Corcoran had some shorebirds, I didn't stop but I saw a few along = with about=20 10 Great Egrets, I only went slow enough to be fairly sure that they = were all=20 Great Egrets, there is a lot of muddy area for the shore birds to wade = in, it=20 might be worth a look..
 
Andrew

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Andrew = Longtin
Corcoran (Hennepin=20 Co.) Minnesota
Minnesota Ornithologists Union=20 Member
     http://biosci.cbs.umn.edu/~mou/
Cornell Lab Member (PFW)
     http://birds.cornell.edu/pfw/
Hardness Zone 4 (climate zone)
ALongtin@worldnet.att.net

See my WEB pages at=20 http://home.att.net/~alongtin/Index.htm

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------=_NextPart_000_0001_01C34FCE.C114D0D0-- From benzdedrick@hotmail.com Tue Jul 22 04:32:19 2003 From: benzdedrick@hotmail.com (Dedrick Benz) Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2003 03:32:19 +0000 Subject: [mou] No Bewick's Wren Message-ID: Greetings, Chad Aakre and I searched for the Millville Bewick's Wren this morning from about 7-8AM. We ran into Helen Tucker who had also been roaming the area looking for the bird, also to no avail. While the wooded hillside behind her residence looked inviting, a nonsinging wren would have been as easy to find in it as, say, an emerging Democratic Presidential hopeful. Helen will get the word out if the bird is refound. Dedrick Benz Winona, MN _________________________________________________________________ The new MSN 8: advanced junk mail protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail From thimgan@digitaljam.com Tue Jul 22 12:24:32 2003 From: thimgan@digitaljam.com (Dan & Sandy Thimgan) Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2003 06:24:32 -0500 Subject: [mou] Little Blue Heron/Douglas Co Message-ID: <10F47C6E-BC37-11D7-8234-00039380FE30@digitaljam.com> Several birders successfully observed the Little Blue Heron (originally discovered by John Ellis) on early Monday afternoon (7/21). Also, there is a nearby Snowy Egret (see below). John's directions and description were right on. The directions are as follows: Go to the town of Ashby in northeastern Grant County, then leave heading southeast on County 82. Follow this road until you turn south on Douglas County 19. Continue on 19 until you reach a four way intersection (with a large sign announcing Bah Lakes WPA). Turn left on Whisper Lane, a dead end going east. Go approx. .4 miles to the wetland on the north side of the road with lots of dead trees. Thanks for the birding companionship of Leslie Marcus and Connie Brunell. And, thanks to the vigilant Dennis Martin who spotted a Snowy Egret nearby. To find the Snowy Egret: Instead of turning at Whisper Road in the above directions, continue traveling on County 19 for approx. .5 miles to a small wetland on the east side of the road. *** Dan & Sandy Thimgan Otter Tail County Battle Lake, MN thimgan@digitaljam.com From two-jays@att.net Tue Jul 22 22:27:13 2003 From: two-jays@att.net (Jim Williams) Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2003 14:27:13 -0700 Subject: [mou] T. S. Roberts books for sale Message-ID: I have a set of The Birds of Minnesota, T. S. Roberts, for sale. This is the limited and signed edition, two boxed volumes, very close to as new, although the box is beginning to show its age. Contact me for more information. Jim Williams two-jays@att.net 952-473-2876 From robert.oconnor@ndsu.nodak.edu Tue Jul 22 22:48:49 2003 From: robert.oconnor@ndsu.nodak.edu (robert.oconnor@ndsu.nodak.edu) Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2003 16:48:49 -0500 (CDT) Subject: [mou] L B Heron and Snowy Egret Message-ID: <49181.24.117.132.131.1058910529.squirrel@webmail.ndsu.nodak.edu> Hi, Although I couldn't locate them at 9:30 Tuesday morning, by 11:15 the Little Blue Heron and Snowy Egret were at the previously posted Douglas County locations. Bob O'Connor From EgretCMan@aol.com Wed Jul 23 04:07:09 2003 From: EgretCMan@aol.com (EgretCMan@aol.com) Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2003 23:07:09 EDT Subject: [mou] NW Minnesota - 7/21/03 Message-ID: <175.1ddabe12.2c4f55dd@aol.com> --part1_175.1ddabe12.2c4f55dd_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 7/21/03 Spent the day working on some year birds in North Western Minnesota, with Linda Sparling and Bob Dunlap. We also spent quit a bit of time searching unsuccessfully for the Little Blue Heron. Note how important the time of the sighting can be in addition to good directions. We searched without success for the Little Blue Heron between 8:00 and 9:30am and again at 6:30pm. We also spent a lot of time in and around the area. Missing the Snowy Egret, but birding that spot at least 6 times!! Great find Dennis, hope to get back up that way again on the weekend. We saw 100s of Egrets and Herons and did locate 8 Cattle Egrets, see posting for directions. Here were some of the other interesting species that we found: @ Cattle Egret - 8 birds were observed just East of the location where the little Blue Heron has been seen. From Grant County Rd 54 & Douglas CR 19, go 1 mile East to Ashby Estates Rd E, Go North on this road to the bend in the road, approx. 1 mile. We observed 8 Cattle Egrets in the pasture next to the little marsh between 8:45 and 9:00am. There were many other interesting birds here as well including a family of Orchard Orioles. @ American Bittern - observed in the cattails next to the road that runs North and South at Rothsay WMA in Wilkin County @ Greater Prairie Chicken - Clay County - CR 26, 1/2 mile East of the Longspur Road. 4 birds were observed. @ There was a nice mix of shorebirds in Douglas County at these locations. 1. CR 56 & CR 15 2. CR 15 & CR 8 3 CR 56 & CR 7 @ Loggerhead Shrike - Clay County - CR 26 and the Longspur Road - Two birds were observed @ Chestnut Collared Longspur - Clay County - numerous Chestnut Collared Longspurs continue sing on territory on there traditional site at Felton Prairie. @ Nelson's Sharp-tailed Sparrow - Wilkin County - A single bird was heard on the North side of the road near the main Prairie Chicken Lek at Rothsay WMA. The bird was singing at about 12:30pm. @ Le Conte's Sparrow - Wilkin County - Several birds were heard in several locations at Rothsay WMA. @ Orchard Oriole - this species was observed in 4 counties at multiple sights in several of the counties. --part1_175.1ddabe12.2c4f55dd_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 7/21/03

Spent the day working on some year birds in North Western Minnesota, with Li= nda Sparling and Bob Dunlap.  We also spent quit a bit of time searchin= g unsuccessfully for the Little Blue Heron.  Note how important the tim= e of the sighting can be in addition to good directions.  We searched w= ithout success for the Little Blue Heron between 8:00 and 9:30am and again a= t 6:30pm.  We also spent a lot of time in and around the area.  Mi= ssing the Snowy Egret, but birding that spot at least 6 times!!  Great=20= find Dennis, hope to get back up that way again on the weekend.  We saw= 100s of Egrets and Herons and did locate 8 Cattle Egrets, see posting for d= irections.  Here were some of the other interesting species that we fou= nd:

@ Cattle Egret - 8 birds were observed just East of the location where the l= ittle Blue Heron has been seen.  From Grant County Rd 54 & Douglas=20= CR 19, go 1 mile East to Ashby Estates Rd E, Go North on this road to the be= nd in the road, approx. 1 mile.  We observed 8 Cattle Egrets in the pas= ture next to the little marsh between 8:45 and 9:00am.  There were many= other interesting birds here as well including a family of Orchard Orioles.=
@ American Bittern - observed in the cattails next to the road that runs Nor= th and South at Rothsay WMA in Wilkin County
@ Greater Prairie Chicken - Clay County - CR 26, 1/2 mile East of the Longsp= ur Road.  4 birds were observed.
@ There was a nice mix of shorebirds in Douglas County at these locations. 1. CR 56 & CR 15
2. CR 15 & CR 8
3 CR 56 & CR 7
@ Loggerhead Shrike - Clay County - CR 26 and the Longspur Road - Two birds=20= were observed 
@ Chestnut Collared Longspur - Clay County - numerous Chestnut Collared Long= spurs continue sing on territory on there traditional site at Felton Prairie= .
@ Nelson's Sharp-tailed Sparrow - Wilkin County - A single bird was heard on= the North side of the road near the main Prairie Chicken Lek at Rothsay WMA= .  The bird was singing at about 12:30pm.
@ Le Conte's Sparrow - Wilkin County - Several birds were heard in several l= ocations at Rothsay WMA.
@ Orchard Oriole - this species was observed in 4 counties at multiple sight= s in several of the counties.
 --part1_175.1ddabe12.2c4f55dd_boundary-- From connyb@mycidco.com Wed Jul 23 07:49:39 2003 From: connyb@mycidco.com (Conny Brunell) Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 06:49:39 Subject: [mou] "27" Cattle Egret in Grant Co 7.21.03 Message-ID: Monday afternoon Leslie Marcus and I were birding in Grant Co and were thrilled to come across a pasture with 27 Cattle Egrets at 3:30. We watched them milling around with the cattle, and you could see the orange on the head, chest, back, and bill as they maneuvered around. From Douglas CR 19 turn West on Grant CR 54 for a mile then turn North on Ashby Estates Rd E, for about a mile. Thanks to the prompt post, and directions by John Ellis, Leslie and I watched the Little Blue Heron from 2:00-2:30 at the posted location in Douglas Co. The Little Blue Heron looked like it got caught in a game of splatball with all the blue/gray mottling on white feathers. Watching the bird with Dan and Sandy got even better when Denny arrived and showed us where the Snowy Egret was. The Snowy looked like a midget next to the Great Egret, and those yellow feet really stood out when the birds were flushed. Sorry about the late post my e-mail has been unavailable for a couple of days. Conny Brunell Richfield, Hennepin Cty connyb@mycidco.com From Holtz@csp.edu Wed Jul 23 18:54:46 2003 From: Holtz@csp.edu (Holtz, Robert E.*) Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 12:54:46 -0500 Subject: [mou] Cygnets Message-ID: This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C35143.80CE7AA0 Content-Type: text/plain Around 7:15 this morning I stopped at the viewing area for the Twin Cities Ammunition Arsenal on the left side of Lexington Avenue about one half mile north of #96. I quickly spotted a pair of Trumpeter Swans on the opposite side of the open water, one in the vegetation and the other in the water. Soon the one in the water moved onto the vegetation. As it did, a couple of grayish objects moved towards it. There was a pair of cygnets with the adults. Later, in the Ramsey County Open Space area which just northeast of 35W and County Rd. I, I spotted a migrant (I presume) Tennessee Warbler. Also where the trail begins to turn to the east, I observed at close range a Bobolink with a nearly pure white, instead of buff, nape. Bob Holtz ------_=_NextPart_001_01C35143.80CE7AA0 Content-Type: text/html Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

Around 7:15 this morning I stopped at the viewing area for the Twin Cities Ammunition = Arsenal on the left side of Lexington = Avenue about one half mile north of #96. I quickly spotted a pair of Trumpeter Swans on the = opposite side of the open water, one in the vegetation and the other in the = water. Soon the one in the water moved onto the vegetation. As it did, a couple of = grayish objects moved towards it. There was a pair of cygnets with the = adults.

 Later, = in the Ramsey County Open Space area which just northeast of 35W and = County = Rd. I, I spotted a migrant (I presume) Tennessee Warbler. Also where the trail begins to = turn to the east, I observed at close range a Bobolink with a nearly pure = white, instead of buff, nape.

 

Bob Holtz

------_=_NextPart_001_01C35143.80CE7AA0-- From smithville4@msn.com Wed Jul 23 22:12:30 2003 From: smithville4@msn.com (Michael Hendrickson) Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 16:12:30 -0500 Subject: [mou] Feathers Message-ID: This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0029_01C35135.37746F80 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable A birder wanted to know where he could find feathers for birds for his = collection and wanted to know the best times. Laura Erickson chimed in = by saying this is a illegal activity. I agree it is but I thought about = how my daughter was excited and was surprised when she found a Barred = Owl feather laying on a hiking trail in Lanesboro, Mn. I could of said "STOP!!!! Becca that is ILLEGAL put that feather down = before we get fined" I thought nothing of it and let her take it home = for her to enjoy since she has some interest in birds. I also wonder = about the many times I led or co-led groups to Lake County Rd. 2 for = Spruce Grouse and a few times we found a dead Spruce Grouse with = feathers all over the road and many of the birders took a tail feather = home. OOOOPS that was a illegal acitivity on their part. How about the = many times birders find a Turkey feather and take it home or a Blue Jay = feather? Are we going to turn in every birder that grabs a feather on = the ground! If so I better go to Canal Park and keep all those tourists = from picking up all those feathers left by the Ring-billed Gulls that = are molting about now. Yes there are laws and yes I would guess there are a small fraction of = birders that will pluck feathers from birds (LOLOL) to get a needed = feather or rob a active nest to get a feather but I would guess 99.9% of = birders don't engage in those kinds of activities. =20 Take care Mike Hendrickson ------=_NextPart_000_0029_01C35135.37746F80 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
A birder wanted to know where he could find feathers for birds for = his=20 collection and wanted to know the best times. Laura Erickson chimed in = by saying=20 this is a illegal activity.  I agree it is but I thought about how = my=20 daughter was excited and was surprised when she found a Barred Owl = feather=20 laying on a hiking trail in Lanesboro, Mn.
 
I could of said "STOP!!!! Becca that is ILLEGAL put that feather = down=20 before we get fined" I thought nothing of it and let her take it home = for her to=20 enjoy since she has some interest in birds.  I also wonder about = the many=20 times I led or co-led groups to Lake County Rd. 2 for Spruce Grouse and = a few=20 times we found a dead Spruce Grouse with feathers all over the road and = many of=20 the birders took a tail feather home.  OOOOPS that was a illegal = acitivity=20 on their part.  How about the many times birders find a Turkey = feather and=20 take it home or a Blue Jay feather? Are we going to turn in every birder = that=20 grabs a feather on the ground!  If so I better go to Canal Park and = keep=20 all those tourists from picking up all those feathers left by the = Ring-billed=20 Gulls that are molting about now.
 
Yes there are laws and yes I would guess there are a small fraction = of=20 birders that will pluck feathers from birds (LOLOL)  to get a = needed=20 feather or rob a active nest to get a feather but I would guess 99.9% of = birders=20 don't engage in those kinds of activities. 
 
Take care
 
Mike Hendrickson
------=_NextPart_000_0029_01C35135.37746F80-- From birdnird@yahoo.com Wed Jul 23 22:42:27 2003 From: birdnird@yahoo.com (Terence Brashear) Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 14:42:27 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [mou] Conditions at 40th Avenue Message-ID: <20030723214227.9382.qmail@web13807.mail.yahoo.com> Hi Can anyone let me know if 40th Ave in Duluth has appropriate habitat for shorebirds this year? In August I plan on going up with a group of photographers to get images of shorebirds, terns, and gulls in the Duluth area. Thanks in advance! Terry Brashear birdnird@yahoo.com Hennepin County, MN __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com From mikee@cadence.com Wed Jul 23 23:07:06 2003 From: mikee@cadence.com (Michael Engh) Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 15:07:06 -0700 Subject: [mou] west metro bird photo display Message-ID: <3EE8ADCDFF4412498098B712CE4B15CF0EF936@exmbx01sj.cadence.com> This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C35166.C0EA39E9 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable There is a wonderful display of bird photos at the Lutheran Church of = the Reformation in St. Louis Park (2544 Highway 100 S-take the hwy 100 = exit south from I394, follow Stevens Dr to the west frontage rd). I = talked to the pastor (Rev. Dennis Ormseth) and birders are welcome. The = pictures can be viewed whenever the church is open. Call 952-929-0439. = The photos will be on display until the end of the summer. =20 The photographer is Rev. Keith Olstad, Lutheran pastor, avid birder, = environmental theologian and activist, cross country ski marathoner, and = kindofa crazy guy. The 24 photographs cover birds from our area as well = as birds from Nicaragua where Keith has led birding/eco-tourism trips. = He is organizing another trip-call him if you're interested. These are = not hardcore bird listing trips, but rather a mixture of birding, = touring, and getting to know and staying with some of the people while = supporting their eco-friendly economy. Keith's number is in the = Minneapolis phone book. =20 I found the photos to be stunningly beautiful. Well worth a stop if you = are in the area. =20 Mike Engh =20 ------_=_NextPart_001_01C35166.C0EA39E9 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

There is a wonderful display of bird photos at the = Lutheran Church of the Reformation in St. Louis Park (2544 Highway 100 = S—take the hwy 100 exit south from I394, follow Stevens Dr to the west frontage rd). I = talked to the pastor (Rev. Dennis Ormseth) and birders are welcome. The = pictures can be viewed whenever the church is open. Call 952-929-0439. The photos = will be on display until the end of the summer.

 

The photographer is Rev. Keith Olstad, Lutheran = pastor, avid birder, environmental theologian and activist, cross country ski = marathoner, and kindofa crazy guy. The 24 photographs cover birds from our area as = well as birds from Nicaragua where Keith has led = birding/eco-tourism trips. He is organizing another trip—call him if you're = interested. These are not hardcore bird listing trips, but rather a mixture of birding, = touring, and getting to know and staying with some of the people while supporting = their eco-friendly economy. Keith's number is in the Minneapolis phone = book.

 

I found the photos to be stunningly beautiful. Well = worth a stop if you are in the area.

 

Mike Engh

 

=00 ------_=_NextPart_001_01C35166.C0EA39E9-- From Mark.Alt@BestBuy.com Wed Jul 23 23:49:59 2003 From: Mark.Alt@BestBuy.com (Alt, Mark) Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 17:49:59 -0500 Subject: [mou] Feathers Message-ID: This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C3516C.BEE803A0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable It is also illegal to throw cigarette butts out of a car or to tear off = the tag on a mattress. Realistic enforcement of these laws is not = realistic at all - and I hate the butts all over the sidewalks and = roads! =20 =20 =20 Mark Alt Brooklyn Center, MN mark.alt@bestbuy.com "Birds and their songs are important to me, they add to my enjoyment of = life"=20 -----Original Message----- From: Michael Hendrickson [mailto:smithville4@msn.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2003 4:13 PM To: MOU MOU-Net Subject: [mou] Feathers A birder wanted to know where he could find feathers for birds for his = collection and wanted to know the best times. Laura Erickson chimed in = by saying this is a illegal activity. I agree it is but I thought about = how my daughter was excited and was surprised when she found a Barred = Owl feather laying on a hiking trail in Lanesboro, Mn. =20 I could of said "STOP!!!! Becca that is ILLEGAL put that feather down = before we get fined" I thought nothing of it and let her take it home = for her to enjoy since she has some interest in birds. I also wonder = about the many times I led or co-led groups to Lake County Rd. 2 for = Spruce Grouse and a few times we found a dead Spruce Grouse with = feathers all over the road and many of the birders took a tail feather = home. OOOOPS that was a illegal acitivity on their part. How about the = many times birders find a Turkey feather and take it home or a Blue Jay = feather? Are we going to turn in every birder that grabs a feather on = the ground! If so I better go to Canal Park and keep all those tourists = from picking up all those feathers left by the Ring-billed Gulls that = are molting about now. =20 Yes there are laws and yes I would guess there are a small fraction of = birders that will pluck feathers from birds (LOLOL) to get a needed = feather or rob a active nest to get a feather but I would guess 99.9% of = birders don't engage in those kinds of activities. =20 =20 Take care =20 Mike Hendrickson ------_=_NextPart_001_01C3516C.BEE803A0 Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
It is also illegal to throw = cigarette butts=20 out of a car or to tear off the tag on a mattress.  Realistic = enforcement=20 of these laws is not realistic at all - and I hate the butts all over = the=20 sidewalks and roads!
 

 

 

Mark Alt
Brooklyn Center,=20 MN
mark.alt@bestbuy.com

"Birds and their songs are important = to me,=20 they add to my enjoyment of life"

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael = Hendrickson=20 [mailto:smithville4@msn.com]
Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2003 = 4:13=20 PM
To: MOU MOU-Net
Subject: [mou]=20 Feathers

A birder wanted to know where he could find feathers for birds = for his=20 collection and wanted to know the best times. Laura Erickson chimed in = by=20 saying this is a illegal activity.  I agree it is but I thought = about how=20 my daughter was excited and was surprised when she found a Barred Owl = feather=20 laying on a hiking trail in Lanesboro, Mn.
 
I could of said "STOP!!!! Becca that is ILLEGAL put that feather = down=20 before we get fined" I thought nothing of it and let her take it home = for her=20 to enjoy since she has some interest in birds.  I also wonder = about the=20 many times I led or co-led groups to Lake County Rd. 2 for Spruce = Grouse and a=20 few times we found a dead Spruce Grouse with feathers all over the = road and=20 many of the birders took a tail feather home.  OOOOPS that was a = illegal=20 acitivity on their part.  How about the many times birders find a = Turkey=20 feather and take it home or a Blue Jay feather? Are we going to turn = in every=20 birder that grabs a feather on the ground!  If so I better go to = Canal=20 Park and keep all those tourists from picking up all those feathers = left by=20 the Ring-billed Gulls that are molting about now.
 
Yes there are laws and yes I would guess there are a small = fraction of=20 birders that will pluck feathers from birds (LOLOL)  to get a = needed=20 feather or rob a active nest to get a feather but I would guess 99.9% = of=20 birders don't engage in those kinds of activities. 
 
Take care
 
Mike Hendrickson
------_=_NextPart_001_01C3516C.BEE803A0-- From fieldfare21@hotmail.com Thu Jul 24 00:07:50 2003 From: fieldfare21@hotmail.com (Benjamin Fritchman) Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 18:07:50 -0500 Subject: [mou] 2 Little Blue Herons in Douglas! Message-ID: Today my mom, Mary Kroll, and I birded central Minnesota. We stopped up at Hamden Slough and found one of the Moorhens in the previously reported area. The next lake as you drive north on the left has been drawn down and held hundreds of shorebirds. Mostly Yellowlegs, but there was a single Ruddy Turnstone and several Pectoral Sandpipers. On the way home we stopped by the Bah Lakes WPA area. We went to the previously reported pond where the im. Little Blue Heron was found. Since it wasn't reported yesterday we didn't have high hopes, but when we arrived there was the im. and an adult! The im was hanging around the adult the entire time, and after about 30 minutes they flew off together at about 3 P.M. Also we met Dan and Sandy Thimgan and we told them about the adult Little Blue Heron, which they observed until they flew, and they relocated the 20+ Cattle Egrets, but they were north of the intersection of Grant County Rd 54 and CR19. They were sitting in a tree across a pond on the east side of the road just north of Olsons Bay Road. They were flying around a lot, and were seen in general around the Bah Lakes WPA flying over. Ben Fritchman _________________________________________________________________ Add photos to your messages with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail From thimgan@digitaljam.com Thu Jul 24 00:36:59 2003 From: thimgan@digitaljam.com (Dan & Sandy Thimgan) Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 18:36:59 -0500 Subject: [mou] 2 Little Blue Herons/Douglas Co Message-ID: <8D9BAC7E-BD66-11D7-8CFF-00039380FE30@digitaljam.com> There is not just one, but now two Little Blue Herons being seen at the Douglas County locations of recent posts. In addition to the immature LBH, Ben & Mary from Long Prairie discovered an adult at the same location today (Wednesday, 7/23 ) about 2:00 p.m. We had seen the immature about an hour earlier, and after we talked with Ben & Mary (we hope they post so we get their last names right, and they can receive the adulation they deserve!), we zipped right back to the spot where lo and behold and what to our wondering eyes should appear, but an adult LBH in the same vicinity. We watched for about 7-8 minutes, snapped our usual couple of mediocre pictures, and then watched as the pair took off and circled off into the northwest. The Snowy Egret and Cattle Egrets were also seen between 1:00 - 3:30 this afternoon at locations noted in previous posts. --Dan & Sandy *** Dan & Sandy Thimgan Battle Lake, MN Otter Tail Co. thimgan@digitaljam.com >^..^< From sharonks@mn.rr.com Thu Jul 24 00:47:28 2003 From: sharonks@mn.rr.com (Sharon Stiteler) Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 18:47:28 -0500 Subject: [mou] Feathers In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Whenever I'm out with kids and feathers are spotted I always use it to reinforce the phrase, "Take only pictures, leave only foot prints." Some animal is going to get way more use out of that feather than most people will by having it collect dust on a shelf. It's a law that's used to nail poachers, officers have enough sense not to haul into jail every second grader across the country that takes home a blue jay feather. -- Sharon Stiteler Uptown, Minneapolis the official bird lady of www.neilgaiman.com See the mouse incident at www.wildbirdstore.net/kare11.html From Mary Kroll" Message-ID: <001501c3517a$783009e0$5d19f3cd@your6jnhhu0520> Well, as long as we're heaping credit, thanks to Dan and Sandy for pointing us to the cattle egrets. And I can't take any credit for finding little blue heron adult--my eagle-eyed son is the one who found the herons after a quick scan with the scope. I was busy poking a stick at a smashed snake on the road. Anyway, we got a nice look, and a great look at them flying with Dan and Sandy. Thanks again for your help making this a great birding day for us! Mary Kroll Ben Fritchman's Mom ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dan & Sandy Thimgan" To: "Mnbird" ; "MOU" Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2003 6:36 PM Subject: [mnbird] 2 Little Blue Herons/Douglas Co > There is not just one, but now two Little Blue Herons being seen at the > Douglas County locations of recent posts. In addition to the immature > LBH, Ben & Mary from Long Prairie discovered an adult at the same > location today (Wednesday, 7/23 ) about 2:00 p.m. > > We had seen the immature about an hour earlier, and after we talked > with Ben & Mary (we hope they post so we get their last names right, > and they can receive the adulation they deserve!), we zipped right back > to the spot where lo and behold and what to our wondering eyes should > appear, but an adult LBH in the same vicinity. We watched for about > 7-8 minutes, snapped our usual couple of mediocre pictures, and then > watched as the pair took off and circled off into the northwest. > > The Snowy Egret and Cattle Egrets were also seen between 1:00 - 3:30 > this afternoon at locations noted in previous posts. > > --Dan & Sandy > > *** > Dan & Sandy Thimgan > Battle Lake, MN > Otter Tail Co. > thimgan@digitaljam.com > >^..^< > > > _______________________________________________ > mnbird mailing list > mnbird@lists.mnbird.net > http://www.mnbird.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mnbird > From petersenca@earthlink.net Thu Jul 24 02:08:19 2003 From: petersenca@earthlink.net (Christine Petersen) Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 20:08:19 -0500 Subject: [mou] Feathers In-Reply-To: Message-ID: on 7/23/03 6:47 PM, Sharon Stiteler at sharonks@mn.rr.com wrote: > Whenever I'm out with kids and feathers are spotted I always use it to > reinforce the phrase, "Take only pictures, leave only foot prints." Some > animal is going to get way more use out of that feather than most people > will by having it collect dust on a shelf. Very true. The way I approach it is to stop and get the kids to imagine or investigate the "story" behind the feather -- what bird is it from, how did it get there, what might happen to it next if left in place? They might not get to take the feather with them, but they will always have that story to think back on. It works! Christine on the shores of Glen Lake, Minnetonka, Hennepin Co. From christine37o@yahoo.com Thu Jul 24 05:10:56 2003 From: christine37o@yahoo.com (Christine Olson) Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 21:10:56 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [mou] Re: FEATHERS Message-ID: <20030724041056.61416.qmail@web10108.mail.yahoo.com> --0-1491114232-1059019856=:59161 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Here's my two cents: I am in full agreement with not taking the feathers. Look at the feathers, identify them, wonder about them, but leave them where they are found, so others may look and wonder, too. The "what's the harm" approach to the subject is careless. It's a good law, and compliance is easy enough. Let's teach our children to respond with respect to everything they find in nature. Christine Olson - Chisholm Peace --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software --0-1491114232-1059019856=:59161 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii
Here's my two cents:
 
I am in full agreement with not taking the feathers. 
 
Look at the feathers, identify them, wonder about them, but leave them where they are found, so others may look and wonder, too.
 
The "what's the harm" approach to the subject is careless.  It's a good law, and compliance is easy enough.
 
Let's teach our children to respond with respect to everything they find in nature.
 
Christine Olson - Chisholm


Peace

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Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software --0-1491114232-1059019856=:59161-- From dlpwaters@charter.net Thu Jul 24 17:25:39 2003 From: dlpwaters@charter.net (Debbie L.P. Waters) Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 11:25:39 -0500 Subject: [mou] FEATHERS In-Reply-To: <20030724041056.61416.qmail@web10108.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0008_01C351D6.4F4E2B40 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit It is my understanding that it is legal to possess parts of game animals. So it would be legal to pick up grouse feathers, but not owl feathers... Debbie - Duluth ------=_NextPart_000_0008_01C351D6.4F4E2B40 Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

It is my understanding that it is legal to = possess parts=20 of game animals.  So it would be legal to pick up grouse feathers, = but not=20 owl feathers... 
Debbie - = Duluth 
 
 
------=_NextPart_000_0008_01C351D6.4F4E2B40-- From Chris.Fagyal@udlp.com Thu Jul 24 18:26:04 2003 From: Chris.Fagyal@udlp.com (Chris Fagyal) Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 12:26:04 -0500 Subject: [mou] Feathers Message-ID: All, Warning: I'm about to get on my soapbox here. I'm of the opinion that if you need to "interpret" the law and use "common = sense" to figure out who is doing something illegal and who isn't, then = the law isn't very well written and should be re-visited. Explain to me = why it is any different if a 10 year old picks up a feather off the road = than if a 35 year old does it? Is it because of the age? There is = already way too much interpretation of laws going on and it is obvious the = American Judicial system lacks enough common sense for us to rely on this = ability to protect our natural world (see the criminal who won a lawsuit = for cutting his arm on a glass window that he broke trying to burglarize a = house and explain to me "common sense" and "interpret" with respect to the = law) Personally I am all for the Migratory Bird Act and any law that protects = our wildlife as well as the habitat for our wildlife, both here and abroad = (though a LOT more conservation efforts have to be done abroad. See = Brazil, or Malaysia, or Borneo, or Sumatra, or Thailand etc to get glaring = examples of this. I urge all of you who haven't birded abroad to do so. = Go see the devastation that is going on in this world. How 70% of all of = Sumatra's forests have been cleared for oil palm plantations. The same is = occuring all over Malaysia. Or how 90% of the Atlantic Rainforests of = Brazil are gone, and how the governor (incidentally the largest soybean = grower in the state) of the Mato Grosso State in Brazil wants to reduce = the size of the Cristalino Jungle Lodge preserve by 46% to plant soybeans.)= . So please don't believe my rhetorical questions above have anything to = do with me disagreeing with the law. I just think the law is obviously = very poorly written if it requires this much banter. Also explain to me why "game birds" (what a pathetically lame concept) are = legal to have their feathers taken? How does one designate a "game" bird, = and why must we pick out things that should be shot? What happens when we = run out of things to shoot (if you don't think this will eventually happen = you are severely deluded. Just look at all of the vulnerable, endangered = and critically endangered "game" birds in Birdlife Internationals Red = Book)? Does this mean it is "ok" to take feathers from other "game" birds = across the world such as Crested Fireback, or Vietnamese Pheasant, or what = about Himalayan Quail (critically endangered if you didn't know. The = other two are vulnerable or endangered)? For those that aren't familiar = with this list (you can see it on www.birdlife.net), there are over 2 = pages (100+ species) on the list that one would consider "game" birds = (peafowl, grouse, guans, pheasants, partriges, francolins, peacock-pheasan= ts, guineafowl, argus, etc). So let's write a law that actually catches poachers, not one that requires = "common sense" and "interpretation" to do so. If you think picking up a = blue jay or cardinal feather or what not here is bad, I recommend you = visit Papua New Guinea where the natives shoot Birds of Paradise (Many of = which are becoming vulnerable or endangered species now) regularily to = adorn their customary headdresses. Or how about on Bali, where the last = census showed 14 pairs of the Bali Starling alive in the wild (An = absolutely gorgeous white bird with a fabulous white crest and brilliant = blue face/bill), hunted off for basically the same reasons (customary = headdresses). If we want to worry about feathers of birds, lets worry = about the ones that really need the protection. Off my soapbox for now, Chris Fagyal Senior Software Engineer United Defense, L.P. Fridley, MN (763) 572-5320 chris.fagyal@udlp.com >>> Sharon Stiteler 07/23/2003 18:47:28 PM >>> Whenever I'm out with kids and feathers are spotted I always use it to reinforce the phrase, "Take only pictures, leave only foot prints." Some animal is going to get way more use out of that feather than most people will by having it collect dust on a shelf. It's a law that's used to nail poachers, officers have enough sense not to haul into jail every second grader across the country that takes home a = blue jay feather. --=20 Sharon Stiteler Uptown, Minneapolis the official bird lady of www.neilgaiman.com=20 See the mouse incident at www.wildbirdstore.net/kare11.html=20 _______________________________________________ mou-net mailing list mou-net@cbs.umn.edu=20 http://cbs.umn.edu/mailman/listinfo/mou-net From sharonks@mn.rr.com Thu Jul 24 20:09:39 2003 From: sharonks@mn.rr.com (sharonks@mn.rr.com) Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 15:09:39 -0400 Subject: [mou] Feathers Message-ID: <244640-22003742419939108@M2W089.mail2web.com> Chris Fagyal wrote If you think picking up a blue jay or cardinal feather or what not here is= bad, I recommend you visit Papua New Guinea where the natives shoot Birds of Paradise (Many of which are becoming vulnerable or endangered species now) regularily to adorn their customary headdresses=2E Or how about on Bali, where the last census showed 14 pairs of the Bali Starling alive in the wild (An absolutely gorgeous white bird with a fabulous white crest an= d brilliant blue face/bill), hunted off for basically the same reasons (customary headdresses)=2E If we want to worry about feathers of birds, l= ets worry about the ones that really need the protection=2E I use feathers as a tool for "conservation through birding" and kids=2E W= hen a feather is found we discuss who can use it, why it's important, the law and why it's written the way it is=2E If you teach kids how important feathers are from a common bird, you can help reinforce how much more important it is to work for the rare and endangered species that Chris mentions=2E I also use it to teach that just because we see something beautiful outside doen't mean we have to take it=2E That's just my method= =2E=20 Birders have a tough enough time agreeing on field guides and optics so I doubt that this issue will be solved and agreed upon here and now=2E Is i= t a problem with everyone taking a feather here and there? Probably not=2E =20= Sharon Stiteler Uptown, Minneapolis the official bird lady of www=2Eneilgaiman=2Ecom=20 See the mouse incident at www=2Ewildbirdstore=2Enet/kare11=2Ehtml=20 _______________________________________________ mou-net mailing list mou-net@cbs=2Eumn=2Eedu=20 http://cbs=2Eumn=2Eedu/mailman/listinfo/mou-net _______________________________________________ mou-net mailing list mou-net@cbs=2Eumn=2Eedu http://cbs=2Eumn=2Eedu/mailman/listinfo/mou-net -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web=2Ecom/ =2E From smithville4@msn.com Thu Jul 24 20:57:21 2003 From: smithville4@msn.com (Michael Hendrickson) Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 14:57:21 -0500 Subject: [mou] MOU Field Trip Message-ID: This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0042_01C351F3.E2B01840 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hello: On August 23rd the MOU is sponsoring a field trip to look for shorebirds = like Buff-breasted Sandpipers and other species. We will also look for = regular residents and some early migrant passerines. The trip is also = posted on the MOU web site meeting place and time is posted there. If you are interested you can reply to me and I will add you to the list = and as always I will send updates to those that are on the list about = the trip and who is also going and etc.. Also while on the trip and if you find a feather flying around or on the = ground you can keep it or you can look at it and let it be. This reminds = me a few Fall seasons ago in Mid September a jet crashed near the Duluth = Airport and one of the investigators found a feather lodged in one of = the engines and this feather was brought to Hawk Ridge where Laura = Erickson, Kim Eckert and several others ID the feather as to what = species it belonged to. I forgot the what the out come was but memory = to tells me it was a shorebird species. I may be wrong on that. Anyway = since the subject is about feathers I thought I share this tidbit. Back to the field trip offer, I have about 10+ participants so far = signed up. Also this field trip will be a good one to learn about = identifying shorebirds. =20 Thanks Mike Hendrickson MOU Field Trip Chairman & All round good guy! Duluth MN ------=_NextPart_000_0042_01C351F3.E2B01840 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Hello:
 
On August 23rd the MOU is sponsoring a field trip to look for = shorebirds=20 like Buff-breasted Sandpipers and other species.  We will also look = for=20 regular residents and some early migrant passerines.  The trip is = also=20 posted on the MOU web site meeting place and time is posted there.
 
If you are interested you can reply to me and I will add you to the = list=20 and as always I will send updates to those that are on the list about = the trip=20 and who is also going and etc..
 
Also while on the trip and if you find a feather flying around or = on the=20 ground you can keep it or you can look at it and let it be. This reminds = me a=20 few Fall seasons ago in Mid September a jet crashed near the Duluth = Airport and=20 one of the investigators found a feather lodged in one of the engines = and this=20 feather was brought to Hawk Ridge where Laura Erickson, Kim Eckert and = several=20 others ID the feather as to what species it belonged to.  I forgot = the what=20 the out come was but memory to tells me it was a shorebird species. I = may be=20 wrong on that.  Anyway since the subject is about feathers I = thought I=20 share this tidbit.
 
Back to the field trip offer, I have about 10+ participants so far = signed=20 up.  Also this field trip will be a good one to learn about=20 identifying  shorebirds. 
 
Thanks
 
Mike Hendrickson
MOU Field Trip Chairman & All round good guy!
Duluth MN
------=_NextPart_000_0042_01C351F3.E2B01840-- From dbmartin@skypoint.com Thu Jul 24 21:01:14 2003 From: dbmartin@skypoint.com (Dennis/Barbara Martin) Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 15:01:14 -0500 Subject: [mou] MOU Field Trip References: Message-ID: <001701c3521e$5a8ea460$892e56c7@oemcomputer> This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_000E_01C351F4.6D33FEA0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable If I remember right it was a Lesser Golden Plover. Dennis Martin dbmartin@skypoint.com This reminds me a few Fall seasons ago in Mid September a jet crashed = near the Duluth Airport and one of the investigators found a feather = lodged in one of the engines and this feather was brought to Hawk Ridge = where Laura Erickson, Kim Eckert and several others ID the feather as to = what species it belonged to. I forgot the what the out come was but = memory to tells me it was a shorebird species. I may be wrong on that. = Anyway since the subject is about feathers I thought I share this = tidbit. ------=_NextPart_000_000E_01C351F4.6D33FEA0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
If I remember right it was a Lesser Golden=20 Plover.
 
Dennis Martin
dbmartin@skypoint.com
 This reminds me a few Fall seasons ago in Mid September a = jet=20 crashed near the Duluth Airport and one of the investigators found a = feather=20 lodged in one of the engines and this feather was brought to Hawk = Ridge where=20 Laura Erickson, Kim Eckert and several others ID the feather as to = what=20 species it belonged to.  I forgot the what the out come was but = memory to=20 tells me it was a shorebird species. I may be wrong on that.  = Anyway=20 since the subject is about feathers I thought I share this = tidbit.
 
------=_NextPart_000_000E_01C351F4.6D33FEA0-- From drbenson@cpinternet.com Thu Jul 24 23:44:34 2003 From: drbenson@cpinternet.com (David R. Benson) Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 17:44:34 -0500 (CDT) Subject: [mou] Duluth RBA 7/24/03 Message-ID: This is the Duluth Birding Report for Thursday, July 24th, 2003, sponsored by the Minnesota Ornithologists' Union. This week, Janet Riegle reported eight species of migrating shorebirds at 40th Ave West, including 12 PECTORAL SANDPIPERS, 4 STILT SANDPIPERS, 5 BAIRD'S SANDPIPERS, 1 SEMIPALMATED PLOVER, GREATER and LESSER YELLOWLEGS, LEAST SANDPIPER, and SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER. Lynelle Hansen reported 26 AMERICAN WHITE PELICANS at Wisconsin Point on the 20th. Warblers have begun to migrate. The first sure migrants were 2 TENNESSEE WARBLERS in Duluth on the 17th. The next scheduled update of this report will be in two weeks, on Thursday, August 7th. The phone number for the Duluth Birding Report is (218) 728-5030, and callers can report bird sightings if they wish after the tone at the end of each tape. The Duluth Birding Report is sponsored and funded by the Minnesota Ornithologists' Union (MOU) as a service to its members. For more information on the MOU, either write us c/o the Bell Museum of Natural History, 10 Church Street SE, Minneapolis MN 55455; or send an e-mail to mou@cbs.umn.edu; or visit the MOU web site at mou.mn.org. From axhertzel@sihope.com Fri Jul 25 01:49:38 2003 From: axhertzel@sihope.com (Anthony X. Hertzel) Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 19:49:38 -0500 Subject: [mou] MOU RBA 24 July 2003 Message-ID: This is the Minnesota Birding Report for Thursday July 24th. Longtime MOU member Helen Tucker of Millville, Wabasha County found a Bewick's Wren on July 20th near her home. Though the wren has not been seen since Sunday, birders are welcome to visit, but please be respectful of the residential situation. From U.S. Highway 52 and state highway 60, go east on 60 and after crossing U.S. Highway 63 look for mile marker 199. Turn south on County Road 2 into Millville and drive to the far end of Main Street. Turn left just past the two brick houses, then turn north to the 100 block of Bench Street. John Ellis found an immature LITTLE BLUE HERON in the northwest corner of Douglas County near the Grant County line on July 20th. To find the bird exit I-94 at Evansville and take County Road 82 northwest to County Road 19. Go south on County Road 19 to its intersection with Whisper Lane. Turn left on Whisper Lane and go 1/2 mile until you see a large sign for Bah Lake WPA. The bird is in the northwest corner of this intersection, and on the 23rd two Little Blue Herons were seen here. Approximately 1/2 mile south of Whisper Lane on County Road 19 on the east side of the road there was an adult SNOWY EGRET on the 21st. And about two miles north of Whisper Lane were four CATTLE EGRETS. In Grant County as many as 27 Cattle Egrets were found on the 23rd. From Douglas County Road 19 turn west on Douglas County Road 55 (also Grant County Road 54) for a mile then turn north on Ashby Estates Road East, for about a mile. The July 19th shorebird survey at Agassiz NWR in Marshall County produced 17 species, including SANDERLING, and RUDDY TURNSTONE. At Salt Lake in Lac Qui Parle County, ten species of shorebird were counted on July 18th, including: SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER, SOLITARY SANDPIPER, and WILSON'S PHALAROPE. In Meeker County, several shorebirds were found one mile west of west of Cedar Mills at 610th Street. Among the species found on the 19th were LESSER YELLOWLEGS, GREATER YELLOWLEGS, LEAST SANDPIPER, SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER, STILT SANDPIPER, BAIRD'S SANDPIPER, PECTORAL SANDPIPER, and SOLITARY SANDPIPER. A pair of probable LONG-BILLED DOWITCHERS was just north of the Larson's Prairie Marsh Farm in Lac Qui Parle County on July 19th. Directions are: On U.S. Highway 212 go seven miles west of U.S. Highway 75 then turn south at mile marker 5. Drive about one mile and look to the west side of the road for a small pond in a cattle pasture. Many other species of shorebirds at this location. This state-wide birding report is brought to you and financially supported by the Minnesota Ornithologists' Union (MOU). The MOU is Minnesota's oldest and largest bird club. The report is composed from observations generously submitted by MOU members and other birders throughout the state. You can support this weekly update by submitting your bird reports to Anthony Hertzel at axhertzel@sihope.com or by calling the hotline directly at 763-780-8890 and leaving a detailed message. MOU members receive this report directly on MOU-net, the club's free e-mail listservice, which is available to anyone interested. For information contact David Cahlander at . MOU members receive the organization's quarterly journal "The Loon" and the bimonthly magazine, "Minnesota Birding". For membership information, send an e-mail message to our membership secretary at moumembers@yahoo.com. In cooperation with the Minnesota Office of Tourism, highlights of this hotline can be now heard at a toll free number which is available to callers outside the Twin Cities area. The number is 1-800-657-3700. The MOU is pleased to offer this service. Thank you, and good birding. The next scheduled update of this tape is Thursday, July 30th. -- Anthony Hertzel -- axhertzel@sihope.com From ajjoppru@wiktel.com Fri Jul 25 03:54:32 2003 From: ajjoppru@wiktel.com (Jeanie Joppru) Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 21:54:32 -0500 Subject: [mou] Northwest Minnesota Birding Report- Friday, July 25, 2003 Message-ID: <001201c35258$16b116d0$75d5aec6@main> This is the Northwest Minnesota Birding Report for Friday, July 25, 2003 sponsored by the Detroit Lakes Regional Chamber of Commerce. You may also hear this report by calling (218) 847-5743 or 1-800-433-1888. There are some interesting sightings to report this week from around the region. The big news of course is shorebird southward migration. Several locations are reported to have good habitat and good numbers of shorebirds. One of these is in Grant County, along Highway 79 one mile east of Elbow Lake where there were about 500 birds of 8 species. Another is Spink WMA about 9 miles south of Elbow Lake on Highway 54, west on CR 34 six-tenths of a mile. Agassiz National Wildlife Refuge continues to attract a growing number of shorebirds- last weekend's count was 2134 birds of 17 species. A SNOW GOOSE was found on Sunday, July 20th at the Warren wastewater treatment ponds. This is an unusual summer sighting, but the bird appeared to be in good health although we did not see it fly. Also in Marshall County, a TUNDRA SWAN was found on Thief Bay Pool at Agassiz National Wildlife Refuge on Saturday, July 19th.=20 Many people reported interesting birds from Grant County this week. 27 CATTLE EGRETS were found in a cow pasture. Directions from Douglas County Road 19 are to turn west on Grant County Road 54 for one mile then turn north on Ashby Estates Road E for about a mile.=20 A juvenile LITTLE BLUE HERON was reported by several people in Douglas County. Directions from Ashby in northeastern Grant County are to go southwest on County Road 82 to Douglas County Road 19. Take that road south until you reach a four-way intersection with a large sign announcing Bah Lakes WPA. Turn left on Whisper Lane, a dead end road going east, going about 0.4 miles to the wetland on the north side of the road. Since the bird was first discovered, a second Little Blue Heron has been seen there, this time an adult. Dennis Martin found a SNOWY EGRET in a small wetland along County Road 19 which can be reached by continuing south along County Road 19 about 0.5 miles instead of turning onto Whisper Lane. Wilkin County birds reported by Craig Mandel included AMERICAN BITTERN in the cattails next to the road that runs north and south at the Rothsay WMA. A NELSON'S SHARP-TAILED SPARROW was found singing on the north side of the road near the main Prairie-chicken Lek there. ORCHARD ORIOLES and LECONTE'S SPARROWS were observed in several counties in that region. Mel and Elaine Bennefeld found a pair of UPLAND SANDPIPERS with two young behind the clubhouse at the Ponderosa Golf Club in Clay County east of Buffalo River State Park. Please check with the clubhouse personnel before observing. Craig Mandel was also birding in Clay County on the weekend, and reported GREATER PRAIRIE-CHICKENS, LOGGERHEAD SHRIKE, and CHESTNUT-COLLARED LONGSPUR at Felton Prairie . At least one of the COMMON MOORHENS is still at Hamden Slough National Wildlife Refuge as of last weekend. It was observed by several individuals. Shelley Steva reported from Red Lake County on a few shorebirds seen there. Near Huot along the river, she found SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER, LEAST SANDPIPER, KILLDEER, LESSER YELLOWLEGS, and SPOTTED SANDPIPER. A KINGFISHER was seen about four miles northeast of Plummer. In Pennington County, two BLUE-GRAY GNATCATCHERS were identified here in our yard in rural Pennington County on Monday, July 21st. On Wednesday morning I saw three of them, a male, a female , and one bird which was begging and getting fed by one of the others, leading one to think that they may have nested nearby. The Eurasian Collared Dove has not been seen this week, due mostly to not looking for it, but I did hear the bird one day in the area of 5th Street and State Ave, in Thief River Falls. If anyone wants to look for the bird, it requires much driving around that area. The best way to locate it is to listen for the unusual call, a series of coo's with the first being staccato, followed by two more longer coo's, repeated quickly in a set of eight or ten repeats. >From Marshall County, Lori Becker reported six SHORT-EARED OWLS, a family group that nested and raised young in a field near the Wetlands, Pines, and Prairies Audubon Sanctuary. An unusual number of MOURNING DOVES was seen at the Warren grain elevators- about 200. The nesting MERLINS in a yard near Newfolden have produced at least three young all of which were seen with the adult birds on Sunday.The rest of the news from Marshall County is about shorebirds. Several species were found at the Warren wastewater treatment ponds with a substantial number of LEAST SANDPIPERS, SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPERS, and WILSON'S PHALAROPES in the mix. The shorebird survey conducted at Agassiz NWR on Saturday revealed that numbers are increasing there. 11 SEMIPALMATED PLOVERS, 33 MARBLED GODWITS, 90 PECTORAL SANDPIPERS, 93 STILT SANDPIPERS, 113 SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHERS,and 64 WILSON'S PHALAROPES were among the birds tallied. On Sunday one RUDDY TURNSTONE and a SANDERLING were also seen there on Thief Bay Pool. Thanks to Craig Mandel, Lori Becker, Shelley Steva, and Mel and Elaine Bennefeld for their reports. Please report bird sightings to Jeanie Joppru by email, no later than Thursday each week, at ajjoppru@wiktel.com OR call the Detroit Lakes Chamber's toll free number: 1-800-542-3992. Detroit Lakes area birders please call 847-9202. Please include the county where the sighting took place. When reporting by email please put "NW Bird Report" in the subject line of your message. The next scheduled update of this report is Friday, August 1, 2003. From everhart@black-hole.com Fri Jul 25 05:00:18 2003 From: everhart@black-hole.com (Roger Everhart) Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 23:00:18 -0500 Subject: [mou] A clarification regarding feather discussion Message-ID: <3F20AB52.7040400@black-hole.com> --------------060506020503070106020502 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mark Alt wrote: >It is also illegal to throw cigarette butts out of a car or to tear off the tag on a mattress. Realistic >enforcement of these laws is not realistic at all - and I hate the butts all over the sidewalks and roads! Actually it is not illegal to tear the tag off of a mattress you have purchased. It is illegal for the seller of that mattress to remove the tag prior to sale. Everyone feel free to go to your bedrooms and begin ripping! However, always dispose of cigarette butts properly. ;-) Roger Everhart Apple Valley, MN --------------060506020503070106020502 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mark Alt wrote:

>It is also illegal to throw cigarette butts out of a car or to tear off the tag on a mattress.  Realistic >enforcement of these laws is not realistic at all - and I hate the butts all over the sidewalks and roads!

Actually it is not illegal to tear the tag off of a mattress you have purchased. It is illegal for the seller of that mattress to remove the tag prior to sale. Everyone feel free to go to your bedrooms and begin ripping! However, always dispose of cigarette butts properly. ;-)

Roger Everhart
Apple Valley, MN

--------------060506020503070106020502-- From Hagsela@aol.com Fri Jul 25 05:31:27 2003 From: Hagsela@aol.com (Hagsela@aol.com) Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2003 00:31:27 EDT Subject: [mou] Adult Little Blue still in Douglas Message-ID: <7b.1604defc.2c520c9f@aol.com> Just because it's a trek for some folks, I want to report that today, July 24, I observed the adult Little Blue Heron from 6:00-6:30 p.m. Junior must have been grounded (cavorting with Cattle Egrets?). I'd watched for an hour at mid afternoon with no luck and was delighted to scare up the LBH at the east end of the location to which it and/or the juvenile have returned regularly. The bird was actively feeding on frog legs (OK whole frogs) and smaller critters. It worked the east end pretty thoroughly. I also relocated the Snowy Egret in the same spot Dennis 1st saw it. It was very skiddish. The 1st time I stopped by the location it flew off right away. When I returned I parked further away and scoped from the far end of the wetland. I was able to note the pertinent field marks (it was standing on a mud flat so those bright yellow feet really contrasted with the dark legs. It spooked again so I left quickly. After having great close up looks at the Cattle Egrets (8 of them within 20 yards of the road) with Craig and Bob on Monday, I had to see if I could get the big numbers others reported. The cattle were far from the road, but surrounded by white. I was shocked to count 54 Cattle Egrets! I had to count twice! Wow! Linda Sparling Hennepin County From crossbill7200@yahoo.com Fri Jul 25 14:46:00 2003 From: crossbill7200@yahoo.com (Shelley Steva) Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2003 06:46:00 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [mou] Re: FEATHERS In-Reply-To: <20030724041056.61416.qmail@web10108.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <20030725134600.96619.qmail@web11906.mail.yahoo.com> I am in agreement with Christine. It is human nature to want to possess something- and bird feathers are undeniably beautiful! I think that something that could lead to so many unanticipated problems- like the changing of the 1918 law- should be left alone. It is interesting to note that this law just came up in discussion with some teachers I know just last week. We were wondering what was proper when it came to possession of specimens. We were told that as long as you had the permits and you were working for an educational institution you could have the specimens. Shelley Steva- Thief River Falls --- Christine Olson wrote: > Here's my two cents: > > I am in full agreement with not taking the feathers. > > > Look at the feathers, identify them, wonder about > them, but leave them where they are found, so others > may look and wonder, too. > > The "what's the harm" approach to the subject is > careless. It's a good law, and compliance is easy > enough. > > Let's teach our children to respond with respect to > everything they find in nature. > > Christine Olson - Chisholm > > > Peace > > > > > --------------------------------- > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site > design software __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com From Chris Benson" This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0017_01C3528D.8E7D0450 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi All, Whatever your own personal views are on the laws of man or the laws of nature or the circle of life and how everything that dies will provide the means for those that live on to survive, they're your views. Personal responsibility is, well, personal. We all need to face the mirror at some point. I personally agree with Forest; it's the end of the year, our feathers are worn. It's time to molt and grow anew. Chris ------=_NextPart_000_0017_01C3528D.8E7D0450 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Hi All,
 
Whatever your own personal views = are
on the laws of man or the laws of nature
or the circle of life and how = everything=20 that
dies will provide the means for those=20 that
live on to survive, they're your=20 views.
Personal responsibility is, well,=20 personal.
We all need to face the mirror at some=20 point.
 
I personally agree with = Forest;
it's the end of the year,
our feathers are worn.
It's time to molt and grow = anew.
 
Chris
------=_NextPart_000_0017_01C3528D.8E7D0450-- From CarmanDave@aol.com Fri Jul 25 17:50:20 2003 From: CarmanDave@aol.com (CarmanDave@aol.com) Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2003 12:50:20 -0400 Subject: [mou] First Wave of Fall Migrants? Message-ID: <20893A5C.2773EB16.0AB6A892@aol.com> While having lunch on 7/24 with my son at Brighton Beach on Lake Superior, Duluth, just north of the Lester River and the EPA Lab, we observed approximately 50 Yellow-rumped Warblers moving south along the shore during the 45 minutes we were there. David Carman, Duluth From sharonks@mn.rr.com Fri Jul 25 18:03:46 2003 From: sharonks@mn.rr.com (sharonks@mn.rr.com) Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2003 13:03:46 -0400 Subject: [mou] MOU at State Fair?? Message-ID: <114780-22003752517346964@M2W052.mail2web.com> Is the MOU going to have booth at the State Fair this year? Usually there= are pleas for members to work in the booth by now=2E Sharon Stiteler -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web=2Ecom/ =2E From christine37o@yahoo.com Sat Jul 26 00:00:45 2003 From: christine37o@yahoo.com (Christine Olson) Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2003 16:00:45 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [mou] Re: [mnbird] Interesting but a bit worn by now In-Reply-To: <001501c352b4$7e3a3280$0000a398@yourzpvq75jcr6> Message-ID: <20030725230045.22924.qmail@web10103.mail.yahoo.com> --0-1040691867-1059174045=:22717 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii With all due respect, no, I don't think the topic is "a bit worn." Reading points of view opposite my own is how I learn. I am of the strong opinion that we need to preserve nature to the extent of our personal control; so much of it is out of our control (politics, corporations...). So far, no one has convinced me that it is okay to keep feathers. The debate goes on... For anyone bored with a particular topic, one just needs to check the "subject" line and press "delete" without opening the message. I hope everyone has a great weekend of birding! Christine Olson - Chisholm Peace --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software --0-1040691867-1059174045=:22717 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii
With all due respect, no, I don't think the topic is "a bit worn." 
 
Reading points of view opposite my own is how I learn. 
 
I am of the strong opinion that we need to preserve nature to the extent of our personal control; so much of it is out of our control (politics, corporations...).
 
So far, no one has convinced me that it is okay to keep feathers.  The debate goes on...
 
For anyone bored with a particular topic, one just needs to check the "subject" line and press "delete" without opening the message.
 
I hope everyone has a great weekend of birding!
 
Christine Olson - Chisholm 


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Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software --0-1040691867-1059174045=:22717-- From fieldfare21@hotmail.com Sat Jul 26 19:33:24 2003 From: fieldfare21@hotmail.com (Benjamin Fritchman) Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2003 13:33:24 -0500 Subject: [mou] Long-eared Owls and Henslow's Sparrows Message-ID: This morning my grandpa(John Kroll) and I got a call about some weird owls in a barn. So we headed over and flying around the rafters were 4 Long-eared Owls. It was pretty exciting, one of a very few records for Todd. Also the Henslow's Sparrow reported earlier is still east of Cedar Lake. In fact there are at least 2 now, and there might be a 3rd. They keep calling every time we go out there. Also of note the past week are a couple northern birds around Long Prairie. A Purple Finch has been hanging around a feeder, and a Dark-eyed Junco made a surprise appearance at a feeder near town also. Ben Fritchman Long Prairie _________________________________________________________________ Protect your PC - get McAfee.com VirusScan Online http://clinic.mcafee.com/clinic/ibuy/campaign.asp?cid=3963 From dougburi@tnics.com Sat Jul 26 19:40:43 2003 From: dougburi@tnics.com (Doug Buri) Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2003 13:40:43 -0500 Subject: [mou] Shorebird Workshop Aug 1 - 3 Message-ID: <000801c353a5$825dcb00$22b48042@0018999440> This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0005_01C3537B.827B3020 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable At last count there were a few spaces left for the Shorebird Workshop to = be held in Milbank SD on Friday through Sunday; August 1 to 3. If you = have made reservations and find that you can't come, please cancel so we = can offer the space to someone else. You must reserve by calling the Big = Stone NWR at: 1-320-273-2191 or e-mail: carole_gerber@fws.gov. More = information can be found at: www.milbanksd.com=20 I was out this morning (Saturday) planning routes for the field trips. = For a location to be included, I really hope to find more than 100 = shorebirds, less than 100 feet away --- all without getting out of my = pickup. Of course conditions can change by next weekend but I found 6 or = 7 locations in a couple of hours that fit the criteria. One spot had = over 500 birds, some as close as 50 feet. (I did have to get out of the = truck to count 500 plus birds though!) Species included:=20 Semipalmated, Least, Baird's, both Yellow-legs, SB Dowitcher, Avocet, = Wilson's Phalarope, Upland, we're overrun with Pectorals, Semipalmated = Plover, Solitary, & Spotted. =20 Let's hope it gets even better. See you next week. Doug Buri Milbank, South Dakota ------=_NextPart_000_0005_01C3537B.827B3020 Content-Type: text/html; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
At last count there were a few spaces left for the = Shorebird=20 Workshop to be held in Milbank SD on Friday through Sunday; August 1 to = 3. If=20 you have made reservations and find that you can't come, please cancel = so we can=20 offer the space to someone else. You must reserve by calling the Big = Stone NWR=20 at: 1-320-273-2191 or e-mail: carole_gerber@fws.gov. More = information=20 can be found at: www.milbanksd.com 
 
I was out this morning (Saturday) planning routes for the = field=20 trips. For a location to be included, I really hope to find more than = 100=20 shorebirds, less than 100 feet away --- all without getting = out of=20 my pickup. Of course conditions can change by next weekend but = I found=20 6 or 7 locations in a couple of hours that fit the criteria. One = spot had=20 over 500 birds, some as close as 50 feet. (I did have to get out of the = truck to=20 count 500 plus birds though!)
 
Species included: 
 
Semipalmated, Least, Baird's, both Yellow-legs, SB = Dowitcher,=20 Avocet, Wilson's Phalarope, Upland, we're overrun with Pectorals, = Semipalmated=20 Plover, Solitary,  & Spotted.  
 
Let's hope it gets even better. See you next = week.
 
Doug Buri
Milbank, South Dakota
------=_NextPart_000_0005_01C3537B.827B3020-- From herbdingmann@astound.net Sun Jul 27 00:08:42 2003 From: herbdingmann@astound.net (Herb Dingmann) Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2003 18:08:42 -0500 Subject: [mou] Douglas County - LBH, Snowy Egret, Cattle Egrets Message-ID: <000201c353ca$de6f9660$1ec95340@D452T311> This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0003_01C353A0.F5998E60 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit This afternoon at 2:15, the Little Blue Herons were back at the spot in Bah WMA where they've been previously reported. This time the whole family was there, 2 adults and an immature. Just minutes earlier, I re-found the Snowy Egret in the same place it's been seen before, one-half mile south of Whisper Lane on CR19. And Cattle Egrets were found again 2 miles north of Whispering Lane along CR19. Cattle Egrets were also found in Grant County in the previously reported spot along Ashby Estates Road East. In Grant County, one of the shorebird spots which Denny Martin reported, 1 mile east of Elbow Lake along Hwy 79, has dried up. So skip that spot unless there is significant rain. However, the Spink WMA site which he reported had a nice mix of shorebirds. To the other birders who were in the area, I hope you had as much luck as I did! Herb Dingmann St. Cloud ------=_NextPart_000_0003_01C353A0.F5998E60 Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

This afternoon at 2:15, the Little Blue Herons = were back at the spot in Bah WMA where they’ve been previously = reported.  This time the whole family was = there, 2 adults and an immature.

 

Just minutes earlier, I re-found the Snowy Egret in = the same place it’s been seen before, one-half mile south of = Whisper Lane on = CR19.

 

And Cattle Egrets were found again 2 miles north of = Whispering Lane along CR19.  Cattle Egrets were also found = in Grant = County in the previously reported spot along Ashby Estates Road = East.

 

In Grant = County, one of the shorebird spots which Denny Martin reported, 1 mile east of = Elbow = Lake along Hwy 79, has dried up.  So skip = that spot unless there is significant rain.  However, the Spink WMA site which he reported had a nice mix of shorebirds.

 

To the other birders who were in the area, I hope you = had as much luck as I did!

 

Herb = Dingmann

St. = Cloud

 

------=_NextPart_000_0003_01C353A0.F5998E60-- From cfagyal@broadbandusa.cc Sun Jul 27 02:18:48 2003 From: cfagyal@broadbandusa.cc (Chris Fagyal) Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2003 20:18:48 -0500 Subject: [mou] Little Blue Family Photos Message-ID: <000001c353dd$0827a6c0$6401a8c0@mcsi.cc> This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0001_01C353B3.1F519EC0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit http://www.avianphotos.org Look under herons/egrets The pictures suck (in my opinion that is), but they show the family unit. Two adults and 1 first summer bird starting to molt into adult plumage. The young one has a really interesting plumage. I tried to show shots that displayed the plumage well. Maybe I'll go back next weekend and sit at that spot for 3 or 4 hours quietly and see if they ever move closer to shore where I could get some really really sharp shots instead of these poor substitutes. Enjoy, Chris ------=_NextPart_000_0001_01C353B3.1F519EC0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

http://www.avianphotos.org<= /o:p>

 

Look under herons/egrets

 

The pictures suck (in my opinion that is), but they = show the family unit.  Two adults = and 1 first summer bird starting to molt into adult plumage.  The young one has a really = interesting plumage.  I tried to show = shots that displayed the plumage well.

 

Maybe I’ll go back next weekend and sit at that = spot for 3 or 4 hours quietly and see if they ever move closer to shore where = I could get some really really sharp shots instead of these poor = substitutes.

 

Enjoy,

Chris

 

 

 

------=_NextPart_000_0001_01C353B3.1F519EC0-- From crossbill7200@yahoo.com Sun Jul 27 04:37:33 2003 From: crossbill7200@yahoo.com (Shelley Steva) Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2003 20:37:33 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [mou] Birds in Polk/Norman and Red Lake Co. Message-ID: <20030727033733.16100.qmail@web11905.mail.yahoo.com> Went birding today- July 26- in both Polk and Red Lake Counties. In Polk Co. I went to Agassiz Dunes. It is found in both Polk and Norman Counties so I am not sure exactly which counties all these species are in. I think though that most were in Polk County. Highlights were: 4 species of sparrows- Lark, Grasshopper, FIELD- heard the "ping pong sound", and clay-colored. Most of these were immatures- and not as easy to identify. I didn't realize how how the dunes extend. They are much farther than I realized- over 2,000 acres at least. There was a large colony of bank swallows down by the Sandhill River as well. On me way back I found 2 LOGGERHEAD SHRIKES along Highway 32 very close to the Glacial Ridge Project sign but on the east side of the road. They were about one mile north of the intersection of Polk Co. 45 and Mn highway 32. I saw one Henslow's sparrow in Red Lake Co. today. (thanks to Peder Svingen for finding that. He heard two others in the same area). To find the Henslow's, turn east off Highway 32 onto Polk Co. 49 just past the intersection of 32 and US Highway 2, drive 2 miles east and then go 1.2 miles north. It was really exciting seeing the shrikes. The last time I saw shrikes in the same area was 22 years ago! Shelley Steva Thief River Falls __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com From saqqara@scc.net Sun Jul 27 16:12:21 2003 From: saqqara@scc.net (Bruce Baer) Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2003 10:12:21 -0500 Subject: [mou] Common Moorhen - Hennepin County Message-ID: <005301c35451$7b7a4280$de9120d1@scc.net> This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0050_01C35427.916551E0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable At nine-thirty this morning a Common Moorhen was seen at the Old = Cedar Avenue Bridge. Go out to the observation deck west of the parking = lot and look west along the edge of the reeds and grass. It was last = seen to the right of the beaver lodge across the water. =20 Three Least Bittern are also out there and can be seen flying back = and forth across the water. =20 Bruce Baer Bloomington, MN saqqara@scc.net ------=_NextPart_000_0050_01C35427.916551E0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
        At nine-thirty = this=20 morning a Common Moorhen was seen at the Old Cedar Avenue Bridge.  = Go out=20 to the observation deck west of the parking lot and look west along the = edge of=20 the reeds and grass.  It was last seen to the right of the beaver = lodge=20 across the water. 
 
    Three Least Bittern are also out = there and=20 can be seen flying back and forth across the water. 
 
 
Bruce Baer
Bloomington, MN
saqqara@scc.net
------=_NextPart_000_0050_01C35427.916551E0-- From rmdbird@mn.rr.com Sun Jul 27 20:40:11 2003 From: rmdbird@mn.rr.com (Bob Dunlap) Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2003 14:40:11 -0500 Subject: [mou] Common Moorhen still present, Hennepin County Message-ID: <001a01c35476$e5375a30$f6c31941@MainComputer> This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0017_01C3544C.FBFF8320 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Around 1:30 this afternoon the Common Moorhen made a quick appearance = while a few others and I watched. The bird was to the left of the = previously reported beaver mound near a small area of waterlilies. This = area is a ways out from the right (west) side of the observation deck. = To observe the bird, you have to be patient and wait awhile until it = reappears from the cattails. Also in this same area there were two = Least Bitterns flying around low in the cattails. -Bob Dunlap, Carver County ------=_NextPart_000_0017_01C3544C.FBFF8320 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Around 1:30 this afternoon the Common = Moorhen made=20 a quick appearance while a few others and I watched.  The bird = was to=20 the left of the previously reported beaver mound near a small area of=20 waterlilies.  This area is a ways out from the right (west) side of = the=20 observation deck. To observe the bird, you have to be patient and wait = awhile=20 until it reappears from the cattails.  Also in this same area there = were=20 two Least Bitterns flying around low in the cattails.
-Bob Dunlap, Carver=20 County
------=_NextPart_000_0017_01C3544C.FBFF8320-- From moumembers@yahoo.com Sun Jul 27 19:56:10 2003 From: moumembers@yahoo.com (Frani Lowe) Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2003 11:56:10 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [mou] State Fair Volunteers Needed Message-ID: <20030727185610.79060.qmail@web14905.mail.yahoo.com> As of today very few MOU members have volunteered to help with the MOU's State Fair Booth. The Fair runs from August 21 through Labor Day - September 1. There are 3 shifts per day. 9 am to 1 pm, 1 pm to 5 pm and 5 pm to 9 pm. We need two volunteers per shift in the booth. If you can help please reply to this email or give me a call. Many thanks. Frani Lowe MOU Membership Secretary 612 825-3074 __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com From EgretCMan@aol.com Sun Jul 27 21:51:09 2003 From: EgretCMan@aol.com (EgretCMan@aol.com) Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2003 16:51:09 EDT Subject: [mou] Common Moorhen - Hennepin County Message-ID: <12a.2e9df3d0.2c55953d@aol.com> --part1_12a.2e9df3d0.2c55953d_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 7/27/03 The Common Moorhen was still present in the previously reported location at 3:00pm. Craig Mandel - EgretCMan@aol.com - Minnetonka, MN --part1_12a.2e9df3d0.2c55953d_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 7/27/03

The Common Moorhen was still present in the previously reported location at=20= 3:00pm.



Craig Mandel - EgretCMan@aol.com - Minnetonka, MN
--part1_12a.2e9df3d0.2c55953d_boundary-- From dbmartin@skypoint.com Sun Jul 27 22:49:14 2003 From: dbmartin@skypoint.com (Dennis/Barbara Martin) Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2003 16:49:14 -0500 Subject: [mou] Ruff-Meeker county Message-ID: <000701c35488$ee0caf40$4f2e56c7@oemcomputer> Actually a female juvenile Reeve. In the rapidly drying area one mile west of Cedar Mills and 75 yards north of Highway 7, about 10:45 am today. While looking at the bird a group of Geese flew in and disrupted all the shorebirds causing them to fly around and land in slightly different areas. After they landed the Reeve was not to be seen but we suspect another wet spot in the area will gather the bird and it may return to this area. A rather strange looking bird. Look for a bird that is very slightly smaller than a Lesser Yellowlegs but with very bright orange-yellow (almost deep orange-gold) legs. The area from the throat to just in front of the legs was a buffy-yellow color. The lower you went on the bird the darker the color became. The rest of the underside of the bird was white. This color is what attracted us in the first place. Very obvious anywhere in the clearing. The bill was shorter than a Lesser Yellowlegs but definitely longer than the Pectoral Sandpipers also in attendance. Probably about as heavy as the Pectorals. The back and folded wings are much neater than you would see on the accompanying Lesser Yellowlegs. Very dark (maybe black in the case of most of the feathers and dark brown in a minority of the feathers) centers to the feathers with pale edges. This was even visible with 10 power binoculars and my camera lens. The bird did not always stay with the yellowlegs and pectorals but wandered around the drier areas where the Least Sandpipers were more common. We were able to study the bird for some 20 minutes and hopefully some good photos were obtained. Dennis and Barbara Martin dbmartin@skypoint.com From chetmeyers@visi.com Mon Jul 28 02:50:09 2003 From: chetmeyers@visi.com (Chet Meyers) Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2003 20:50:09 -0500 Subject: [mou] New Germany - update Message-ID: <20030728015010.0DFB77A926@taranis.mc.mpls.visi.com> Today Miriam and I briefly birded New Germany. The willows have grown so thick along Yancy that it is impossible to see anything much from the road, but that matters little at this point as the water is too high to afford any shoreline. There are a few shorebirds in the flooded pig farm field on Yale.. the usual suspects. The wetland that straddles Highway 7 on the Carver-McLeod county line finally has some useable shoreline and we found small numbers of shorebirds (5 common species) as well as 49 great egrets. We explored and found no new areas. Previously flooded farm fields have dried up and are filling with vegetation and crops. From khaus@chartermi.net Mon Jul 28 03:06:02 2003 From: khaus@chartermi.net (Keith Hauswirth) Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2003 21:06:02 -0500 Subject: [mou] Hummingbird Feeder Message-ID: <003c01c354ac$cd087ee0$babfc518@dul.mn.charter.com> This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0039_01C35482.E3616B40 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I am seeking some advice as to where to hang a hummingbird feeder. I = have a relative large back yard adjacent to a wooded area. I have = several feeders about that attract finches, chickadees, grossbeaks, = cardinals, etc. My wife has two small gardens but they are in open = areas. All feeders, except one, hang from trees and are pretty well = sheltered. I am unsure where to hang the hummingbird feeder. Should it = be near the others? Should it be in the open or sheltered? Should = there be more than one? We do have hummingbirds about as they = occasionally fly through the yard. Any advice one can give will be = greatly appreciated Thanks. ------=_NextPart_000_0039_01C35482.E3616B40 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
I am seeking some advice as to where to = hang a=20 hummingbird feeder.  I have a relative large back yard adjacent to = a wooded=20 area.  I have several feeders about that attract finches, = chickadees,=20 grossbeaks, cardinals, etc. My wife has two small gardens but = they are=20 in open areas. All feeders, except one, hang from trees and are pretty = well=20 sheltered.  I am unsure where to hang the hummingbird feeder.  = Should=20 it be near the others?  Should it be in the open or = sheltered? =20 Should there be more than one?  We do have hummingbirds about as = they=20 occasionally fly through the yard.  Any advice one can give will be = greatly=20 appreciated  Thanks.
------=_NextPart_000_0039_01C35482.E3616B40-- From george.skinner@gte.net Mon Jul 28 04:00:11 2003 From: george.skinner@gte.net (George B Skinner) Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2003 22:00:11 -0500 Subject: [mou] Whooping Crane, Steele Co, MN Message-ID: <003c01c354b4$86fa4160$f883fb43@computer> This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0038_01C3548A.739D1400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable At 6:00 p.m., 27 July 2003, the Whooping Crane was at the north end of = the pond which is north of Co. Rd. 19 near the northwest corner of Rice = Lake State Park. George Skinner, Minnetonka, MN ------=_NextPart_000_0038_01C3548A.739D1400 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
At 6:00 p.m., 27 July 2003, the Whooping Crane = was at the=20 north end of the pond which is north of Co. Rd. 19 near the = northwest=20 corner of Rice Lake State Park.
George Skinner,
Minnetonka, MN
------=_NextPart_000_0038_01C3548A.739D1400-- From rmdbird@mn.rr.com Mon Jul 28 16:24:33 2003 From: rmdbird@mn.rr.com (Bob Dunlap) Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2003 10:24:33 -0500 Subject: [mou] Willet and other shorebirds, McLeod County Message-ID: <002401c3551c$593533d0$f6c31941@MainComputer> This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0021_01C354F2.6FFD83D0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable This morning I went to see if I could refind the Reeve that was reported = in Meeker County. This morning the spot where it was reported was = completely dry, so needless to say there were no shorebirds. However, = on the way there and back there were excellent mudflats along Hwy. 7 in = McLeod County about 1/4 mile west of the county line with Carver County. = The mudflats were on both sides of the highway, but the north side had = more shorebirds. I estimated about 300 individuals, with 11 species = present: WILLET- one bird on the east part of the mudflats north of the highway. = The bird flew a couple of times showing its awesome black-and-white wing = pattern. Least Sandpiper- many Semipalmated Sandpiper- many Pectoral Sandpiper- many Baird's Sandpiper- ~10 Stilt Sandpiper- ~20 Lesser Yellowlegs- many Greater Yellowlegs- 6 Wilson's Phalarope- 2 Killdeer- many Semipalmated Plover- 1 This set of mudflats should be good for a few weeks yet unless it stays = extremely dry. Hwy. 7 is pretty busy, but there are good shoulders on = both sides of the road to pull off on. -Bob Dunlap, Carver County ------=_NextPart_000_0021_01C354F2.6FFD83D0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
This morning I went to see if I could = refind the=20 Reeve that was reported in Meeker County.  This morning the spot = where it=20 was reported was completely dry, so needless to say there were no=20 shorebirds.  However, on the way there and back there were = excellent=20 mudflats along Hwy. 7 in McLeod County about 1/4 mile west of the county = line=20 with Carver County.  The mudflats were on both sides of the = highway, but=20 the north side had more shorebirds.  I estimated about 300 = individuals,=20 with 11 species present:
WILLET- one bird on the east part of = the mudflats=20 north of the highway.  The bird flew a couple of times showing its = awesome=20 black-and-white wing pattern.
Least Sandpiper- many
Semipalmated Sandpiper- = many
Pectoral Sandpiper- many
Baird's Sandpiper- ~10
Stilt Sandpiper- ~20
Lesser Yellowlegs- many
Greater Yellowlegs- 6
Wilson's Phalarope- 2
Killdeer- many
Semipalmated Plover- 1
 
This set of mudflats should be good for = a few weeks=20 yet unless it stays extremely dry.  Hwy. 7 is pretty busy, but = there are=20 good shoulders on both sides of the road to pull off on.
-Bob Dunlap, Carver=20 County
------=_NextPart_000_0021_01C354F2.6FFD83D0-- From JELLISBIRD@aol.com Tue Jul 29 01:30:10 2003 From: JELLISBIRD@aol.com (JELLISBIRD@aol.com) Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2003 20:30:10 EDT Subject: [mou] Cattle Egrets, Grant County Message-ID: <54.164e8cb9.2c571a12@aol.com> On Friday late afternoon I went looking for the cattle egrets south of Pelican Lake reported by Connie Brunell and Leslie Marcus. It was about 4:15-4:45 and the cows/cattle were working their way down from the hilltop where they had been earlier, toward the farm at the east end of the field. The entourage of cattle egrets included 35 or 36 birds (Two counts each of 35 and 36 and one count of 37 so who knows?) It was quite a sight for what I had thought of as a relatively rare bird in MN. John Ellis-St. Paul ----------------------- Headers -------------------------------- Return-Path: <> Received: from rly-xm02.mx.aol.com (rly-xm02.mail.aol.com [172.20.83.103]) by air-xm01.mail.aol.com (v95.1) with ESMTP id MAILINXM13-5f23f247104ec; Sun, 27 Jul 2003 20:40:54 -0400 Received: from imo-r04.mx.aol.com (imo-r04.mx.aol.com [152.163.225.100]) by rly-xm02.mx.aol.com (v95.1) with ESMTP id MAILRELAYINXM22-5f23f247104ec; Sun, 27 Jul 2003 20:40:36 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost) by imo-r04.mx.aol.com (8.8.8/8.8.8/AOL-5.0.0) with internal id UAA01439; Sun, 27 Jul 2003 20:40:36 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2003 20:40:36 -0400 (EDT) From: Mail Delivery Subsystem Subject: Returned mail: Host unknown (Name server: cbs.emn.edu: host not found) Message-Id: <200307280040.UAA01439@imo-r04.mx.aol.com> To: JELLISBIRD@aol.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/report; report-type=delivery-status; boundary="UAA01439.1059352836/imo-r04.mx.aol.com" Auto-Submitted: auto-generated (failure) X-AOL-IP: 152.163.225.100 From alongtin@worldnet.att.net Tue Jul 29 03:25:34 2003 From: alongtin@worldnet.att.net (Andrew Longtin) Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2003 21:25:34 -0500 Subject: [mou] Hummingbird Feeder In-Reply-To: <003c01c354ac$cd087ee0$babfc518@dul.mn.charter.com> Message-ID: <000a01c35578$b087c470$6b42520c@computer> This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_000B_01C3554E.C7B1BC70 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit How about right on the window where you can get a great close up look at them.. Check out the first few shots on this page, I get great views every single day... http://home.att.net/~alongtin/Bird_Pictures/Thumbnails_Of_Bird_Shots_1.htm Andrew -- Andrew Longtin Corcoran (Hennepin Co.) Minnesota Minnesota Ornithologists Union Member http://biosci.cbs.umn.edu/~mou/ Cornell Lab Member (PFW) http://birds.cornell.edu/pfw/ Hardness Zone 4 (climate zone) ALongtin@worldnet.att.net See my WEB pages at http://home.att.net/~alongtin/Index.htm NO SPAM NEEDED HERE!!!! -----Original Message----- From: mou-net-admin@cbs.umn.edu [mailto:mou-net-admin@cbs.umn.edu]On Behalf Of Keith Hauswirth Sent: Sunday, July 27, 2003 9:06 PM To: mou-net@cbs.umn.edu Subject: [mou] Hummingbird Feeder I am seeking some advice as to where to hang a hummingbird feeder. I have a relative large back yard adjacent to a wooded area. I have several feeders about that attract finches, chickadees, grossbeaks, cardinals, etc. My wife has two small gardens but they are in open areas. All feeders, except one, hang from trees and are pretty well sheltered. I am unsure where to hang the hummingbird feeder. Should it be near the others? Should it be in the open or sheltered? Should there be more than one? We do have hummingbirds about as they occasionally fly through the yard. Any advice one can give will be greatly appreciated Thanks. ------=_NextPart_000_000B_01C3554E.C7B1BC70 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
How about right on the window where you can get a great close = up look at=20 them.. Check out the first few shots on this page, I get great views = every=20 single day...
 
http://home.att.net/~alongtin/Bird_Pictures/Thumbnails_Of_Bird= _Shots_1.htm
 
Andrew

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Andrew = Longtin
Corcoran (Hennepin=20 Co.) Minnesota
Minnesota Ornithologists Union=20 Member
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From: = mou-net-admin@cbs.umn.edu=20 [mailto:mou-net-admin@cbs.umn.edu]On Behalf Of Keith=20 Hauswirth
Sent: Sunday, July 27, 2003 9:06 PM
To:=20 mou-net@cbs.umn.edu
Subject: [mou] Hummingbird=20 Feeder

I am seeking some advice as to where = to hang a=20 hummingbird feeder.  I have a relative large back yard adjacent = to a=20 wooded area.  I have several feeders about that attract finches,=20 chickadees, grossbeaks, cardinals, etc. My wife has two = small=20 gardens but they are in open areas. All feeders, except one, hang from = trees=20 and are pretty well sheltered.  I am unsure where to hang the = hummingbird=20 feeder.  Should it be near the others?  Should it be = in the=20 open or sheltered?  Should there be more than one?  We do = have=20 hummingbirds about as they occasionally fly through the yard.  = Any advice=20 one can give will be greatly appreciated =20 Thanks.
------=_NextPart_000_000B_01C3554E.C7B1BC70-- From Chris.Fagyal@udlp.com Tue Jul 29 14:04:29 2003 From: Chris.Fagyal@udlp.com (Chris Fagyal) Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 08:04:29 -0500 Subject: [mou] Ecuador trip report, if anyone is interested Message-ID: All, If anyone is interested I have finally, after 8 months of procrastination, = have completed my trip report for my Ecuador trip last November. Even = after slicing my foot on the 8th day of the trip and having to forego the = final day trip, I still compiled 337 species, of which roughly 250+ were = lifers (I have been to Costa Rica twice thus why I only got 250 or so = lifers. Someone who hadn't visited the tropics would have had well over = 300 lifers). So if you are interested let me know and i'll send along the word doc to = you. Chris Fagyal Senior Software Engineer United Defense, L.P. Fridley, MN (763) 572-5320 chris.fagyal@udlp.com From christine37o@yahoo.com Wed Jul 30 00:31:50 2003 From: christine37o@yahoo.com (Christine Olson) Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 16:31:50 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [mou] North Shore Birding Inquiry Message-ID: <20030729233150.98164.qmail@web10107.mail.yahoo.com> --0-61495628-1059521510=:98028 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii We were thinking about birding the Two Harbors - Grand Marais area this weekend for the first time. Would anyone be willing to share some "must see" stops? What is being seen in the area lately? Any input would be appreciated. Thank You! Christine Olson - Chisholm Peace --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software --0-61495628-1059521510=:98028 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii
We were thinking about birding the Two Harbors - Grand Marais area this weekend for the first time. 
 
Would anyone be willing to share some "must see" stops?  What is being seen in the area lately?
 
Any input would be appreciated.
 
Thank You!
 
Christine Olson - Chisholm


Peace

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Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software --0-61495628-1059521510=:98028-- From dougburi@tnics.com Wed Jul 30 01:36:30 2003 From: dougburi@tnics.com (Doug Buri) Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 19:36:30 -0500 Subject: [mou] Shorebird Workshop -- SD route Message-ID: <002a01c35632$b48870a0$46b48042@0018999440> This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0026_01C35608.B5A19AE0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable To: Everyone attending the Shorebird Workshop this weekend I ran the Saturday route for the Shorebird Workshop today. If conditions = don't change we should have very good shorebirding. There were "all the = usual suspects" plus; Willets, Marbled Godwits, 300 - 500 Wilson's = Phalaropes, Bairds Sandpipers, Dowitchers, 50-75 Avocets, Stilt = Sandpipers, Upland Sandpipers, etc. At one single location Laura Hubers (biologist at Waubay NWR) stopped = counting shorebirds when she reached 1600! Keep your fingers crossed See you this weekend Doug Buri Milbank, SD ------=_NextPart_000_0026_01C35608.B5A19AE0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
To:  Everyone attending the Shorebird Workshop this=20 weekend
 
I ran the Saturday route for the Shorebird Workshop today. = If=20 conditions don't change we should have very good = shorebirding. There were=20 "all the usual suspects" plus; Willets, Marbled Godwits, 300 - 500 = Wilson's=20 Phalaropes, Bairds Sandpipers, Dowitchers, 50-75 Avocets, Stilt = Sandpipers,=20 Upland Sandpipers, etc.
 
At one single location Laura Hubers (biologist at Waubay = NWR)=20 stopped counting shorebirds when she reached 1600!
 
Keep your fingers crossed
See you this weekend
 
Doug Buri
Milbank, SD
------=_NextPart_000_0026_01C35608.B5A19AE0-- From amccutch@cannon.net Wed Jul 30 04:49:11 2003 From: amccutch@cannon.net (Alden McCutchan) Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 22:49:11 -0500 Subject: [mou] mou - Steele County, Mn Whooping Crane still there Message-ID: At 7:15 PM today THREE cranes flew in a tight grouping from the NW into the small pond north of Steele County Highway 19 near the NW corner of Rice Lake State Park. One was an adult whooping crane with all the proper markings. We could see no white on the other two. They appeared nearly as large as the whooping crane but with only 8x40 binoculars the markings of these two were difficult to discern (at approximately 200 yards). They appeared to be roughly the size and coloring of adult sandhills. The whoopimg crane left the other two after alighting near the shore and walked slowly along the NE shore of the pond before returning to the others. There was no ripple on the water so the beutiful whooping crane with it's reflected water image was spectacular! Do whoopers and sandhills fly closely together in tight formation? Could these be unusually marked juveniles? My friend and neighbor Mary Doerr and I await your responses. We watched these spectacular birds from highway 19 for about half an hour - an experience we will not forget. Alden McCutchan Kenyon, MN From beimborn@tc.umn.edu Wed Jul 30 14:39:48 2003 From: beimborn@tc.umn.edu (Don Beimborn) Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 08:39:48 -0500 Subject: [mou] 52 degrees north Message-ID: <001c01c356a0$0d2fd320$0ef96580@server02> This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0019_01C35676.23134160 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Returned a few days ago from a fishing trip on Severn Lake, about 52 = degrees north. Severn is a bit more than 300 miles north of = International falls.=20 I was impressed by the lack of birds! No warblers, a couple of white = throats, a robin, hermit thrush and black backed woodpeckers. It was = dry, no mosquitoes, and the camp is near an old burn (1997). Water birds were scarce as well. Three or four herring gulls, some = goldeneye broods, two caspian terns were about it.=20 We recall seeing Itasca park full of warblers in July. =20 Can anyone tell me if the lack of warblers is usual or unusual? Could = they have all left because of the dry conditions? An off-line answer would be fine. Don Beimborn don@beimborn.com ------=_NextPart_000_0019_01C35676.23134160 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Returned a few days ago from a fishing trip on = Severn=20 Lake, about 52 degrees north.  Severn is a bit more than 300 miles = north of=20 International falls.
 
I was impressed by the lack of birds!  No = warblers, a couple of white throats, a robin, hermit thrush and = black=20 backed woodpeckers.  It was dry, no mosquitoes, and the camp is = near an old=20 burn (1997).
 
Water birds were scarce as well. Three or four = herring=20 gulls, some goldeneye broods, two caspian terns were about it. =
 
We recall seeing Itasca park full of warblers = in=20 July. 
 
Can anyone tell me if the lack of = warblers is usual=20 or unusual?  Could they have all left because of the dry=20 conditions?
 
An off-line answer would be fine.
 
 
 
Don Beimborn
 
don@beimborn.com
= ------=_NextPart_000_0019_01C35676.23134160-- From smithville4@msn.com Wed Jul 30 16:24:41 2003 From: smithville4@msn.com (Michael Hendrickson) Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 10:24:41 -0500 Subject: [mou] Info on shorebird spots Message-ID: This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_003D_01C35684.C964BCC0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hello: I been reading about all the shorebirds being seen this late July and = was hoping I could get some information about some places. I am leading a trip to Dakota County and some of Scott County for = shorebirds and was wondering what if the sod farms isn't as productive = as last year what would be my backup plan? So if you have any shorebird = spots that are nearby the Twin Cities can you reply to this and give = locations so I can mark it down? I need places that are currently doing = well with shorebirds and possibly would hold up till August 23rd. We = are meeting at 7am at the Park and Ride off I-35W near Black Dog Lake = and if you have a place other than Dakota Co or Scott Co that can be = reached in a hour or so please send your spots to me. Thanks so much! Mike Hendrickson ------=_NextPart_000_003D_01C35684.C964BCC0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Hello:
 
I been reading about all the shorebirds being seen this late July = and was=20 hoping I could get some information about some places.
 
I am leading a trip to Dakota County and some of Scott County for=20 shorebirds and was wondering what if the sod farms isn't as productive = as last=20 year what would be my backup plan?  So if you have any shorebird = spots that=20 are nearby the Twin Cities can you reply to this and give locations so I = can=20 mark it down?  I need places that are currently doing well with = shorebirds=20 and possibly would hold up till August 23rd.   We are meeting = at 7am=20 at the Park and Ride off I-35W near Black Dog Lake and if you have a = place other=20 than Dakota Co or Scott Co that can be reached in a hour or so please = send your=20 spots to me.
 
Thanks so much!
 
Mike Hendrickson
------=_NextPart_000_003D_01C35684.C964BCC0-- From kschik@fmr.org Wed Jul 30 17:38:14 2003 From: kschik@fmr.org (Karen Schik) Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 11:38:14 -0500 Subject: [mou] Birding in N. Wash Co. Message-ID: --============_-1152539398==_ma============ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" I recently moved to the very north edge of Washington County (Scandia) and I wonder if other birders in the area could let me know of local hot-spots or favorite sites. I often see bird listings for Dakota and Henn counties, but very seldom for Wash. What's up with that?! Thanks! ________________________________ Karen Schik Restoration Ecologist Friends of the Mississippi River 46 East 4th Street, Suite 606 Saint Paul MN 55101-1112 Phone 651/222-2193 Fax 651/222-6005 http://www.fmr.org --============_-1152539398==_ma============ Content-Type: text/enriched; charset="us-ascii" I recently moved to the very north edge of Washington County (Scandia) and I wonder if other birders in the area could let me know of local hot-spots or favorite sites. I often see bird listings for Dakota and Henn counties, but very seldom for Wash. What's up with that?! Thanks! ________________________________ Karen Schik Restoration Ecologist Friends of the Mississippi River 46 East 4th Street, Suite 606 Saint Paul MN 55101-1112 Phone 651/222-2193 Fax 651/222-6005 http://www.fmr.org --============_-1152539398==_ma============-- From Avocet13@charter.net Thu Jul 31 14:21:13 2003 From: Avocet13@charter.net (Blaine) Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 08:21:13 -0500 Subject: [mou] Dakota Co collared Dove Message-ID: Good Morning all, I just returned from the grain elevators in Farmington and found a Eurasion Collared Dove. It was on the dirt road next to the elevators in town. And quickly flew towards the Burger King. I lost track of it at this point but it should still be around. Unfortunately I had some frozen product in my vehicle for a customer so I couldn't stay but am going back to try and refind now. 8:00 and wil let you now if I can refind it. Also as a note I didn't have time to rule out Turtle Dove but with the increasing sightings of Collared dove I doubt this is the case.. And a bit overdue for a sighting in the metro area.. Good Luck Blaine seeliger Avocet13@charter.net 612-414-0214 From Avocet13@charter.net Thu Jul 31 15:46:03 2003 From: Avocet13@charter.net (Blaine) Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 09:46:03 -0500 Subject: [mou] Collared Dove Message-ID: Good Morning again, I returned to look for the bird again without luck. For about an hour untill it started raining. However I really don't think it went far. This is an area where it would be easy for it to hide. After reviewing my notes and consulting Sibley I'm sure it was a Collared dove. A couple of more note's as to the location. In my earlier post I ment in the dirt next to the road. It's not actually a dirt road. Donwtown Farmington off of hyw 50. South side of hyw 50 there is a burger king. South of the burger king at the south west corner of Oak st and Second st there are the grain elevators marked P.H.Feely and sons. On the east side are the grain spouts or fillers and that is where the bird was. It flew towards the burger king. And after walking that way I found quite a few feeders ( most of which were empty and not really the size good for a dove however the neighbors told me they see doves all the time at there feeders )behind the townhouses across from the Lamperts yard. There are quite a few areas the bird could be right in the general area. I will post if refound.. Good luck, Blaine seeliger Avocet13@charter.net 612-414-0214 From axhertzel@sihope.com Thu Jul 31 22:00:52 2003 From: axhertzel@sihope.com (Anthony X. Hertzel) Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 16:00:52 -0500 Subject: [mou] Seasonal Report Message-ID: The brief summer season ends today. Please remember to send in your observations to Peder Svingen, the MOU's Seasonal Report editor. The data you provide is very helpful in compiling the seasonal record for both "The Loon" and "North American Birds." -- Anthony Hertzel -- axhertzel@sihope.com From Paul.Budde@us.benfieldgroup.com Thu Jul 31 22:35:47 2003 From: Paul.Budde@us.benfieldgroup.com (Paul Budde) Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 16:35:47 -0500 Subject: [mou] Eurasian Collared-Dove in Dakota - Update Message-ID: This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C357AB.B4439D20 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Terry Brashear called to say that the Eurasian Collared-Dove that Blaine first reported frequents feeders at the large white house at the corner of Division and Oak in Farmington. As you enter Farmington from the west along Hwy 50, turn right at Division. Oak is the next street. It is OK to view the feeders from the road, but please respect this resident's privacy and property. Terry also saw the bird in nearby conifers several houses away, so patience and perseverance might be required to find it. Apparently there are as many as 3 around, and they've been there for a year. Paul ------_=_NextPart_001_01C357AB.B4439D20 Content-Type: text/html Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Eurasian Collared-Dove in Dakota - Update

Terry Brashear called to say that the Eurasian = Collared-Dove that Blaine first reported frequents feeders at the large = white house at the corner of Division and Oak in Farmington.  As = you enter Farmington from the west along Hwy 50, turn right at = Division.  Oak is the next street.

It is OK to view the feeders from the road, but = please respect this resident's privacy and property.  Terry also = saw the bird in nearby conifers several houses away, so patience and = perseverance might be required to find it.  Apparently there are = as many as 3 around, and they've been there for a year.

Paul

------_=_NextPart_001_01C357AB.B4439D20-- From Paul.Budde@us.benfieldgroup.com Thu Jul 31 22:44:19 2003 From: Paul.Budde@us.benfieldgroup.com (Paul Budde) Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 16:44:19 -0500 Subject: [mou] Summer Seasonal Reports Message-ID: This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C357AC.E5B212F0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Electronic submissions should still be sent directly to me. These include files from the MN listing software or Avisys files. (The web checklist is currently inactive.) All paper reports go directly to Peder. Thanks. Paul paul.budde@us.benfieldgroup.com -----Original Message----- From: Anthony X. Hertzel [mailto:axhertzel@sihope.com] The brief summer season ends today. Please remember to send in your observations to Peder Svingen, the MOU's Seasonal Report editor. ...... ------_=_NextPart_001_01C357AC.E5B212F0 Content-Type: text/html Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Summer Seasonal Reports

Electronic submissions should still be sent directly = to me.  These include files from the MN listing software or Avisys = files.  (The web checklist is currently inactive.)  All paper = reports go directly to Peder.  Thanks.

Paul
paul.budde@us.benfieldgroup.com

-----Original Message-----
From: Anthony X. Hertzel [mailto:axhertzel@sihope.com] =

The brief summer season ends today.

Please remember to send in your observations to Peder = Svingen, the
MOU's Seasonal Report editor. = ...<snip>...

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