[mou] RE: [mnbird] Dakota Co. (long & probably too chatty)

[Anna Morphique]

how do you dispense the grape jelly to the Orioles? Is there a special 
feeder?


>From: "Steve Weston" <sweston2@comcast.net>
>To: "mnbird" <mnbird@lists.mnbird.net>,"Mou-net" <mou-net@cbs.umn.edu>
>Subject: [mnbird] Dakota Co. (long & probably too chatty)
>Date: Sun, 9 Jul 2006 12:13:58 -0500
>
>On Saturday, about noon, being in Lakeville, I went to check out the 
>prairie near Soberg WMA southwest of CR70 and I-35.   I had visited this 
>spot about a week ago, and had thought I heard the Henslows singing 
>intermittently a couple of times, but found it hard to separate the song 
>out from the background activity of the Sedge Wrens.  This time a Henslows 
>was singing consistently and the song was unmistakable, east of the 
>intersection and south of the road,   although I never did see the bird.
>
>If you haven't gotten your fix of Bobolinks for the year, they were in my 
>face most of the time, perching on the fence and scolding me. This time the 
>males only approached me, with the females in the background scurrying for 
>food.  I suspect that the nest near the road that last week I was too close 
>to, has fledged.   Last week I found Dickcissels, food in bill, on the 
>fence.  This week they seemed less intent on scrounging, and were actually 
>singing on the wire.   Other birds there included a brown Thrasher, noisy, 
>but concealed Sedge Wrens all over, and a Marsh Wren.  Also found an Eyed 
>Brown Butterfly.  I talked with one of the locals and found out that the 
>owners do not hay these fields.
>
>In another marsh in Lakeville I found a Spotted Sandpiper that I suspect 
>was trying to draw me away from its nest.
>
>Around the yard on Quiggley Lake the Barred Owls have fledged three, who 
>are every night begging right outside our window.  The sound is closest to 
>the scream of Red-tailed Hawk.  Last night they were practicing adult 
>calls. The Baltimore Orioles are scarfing down the grape jelly.  Yesterday 
>we had four females/immatures and Cherie tells me that there are two males. 
>  Hairy and Downies with young are visiting the suet and the chickadees 
>with their darker young ones are constantly parading through the sunflower 
>feeder.  We have one Woody female that hangs around the yard, but I hope 
>she is not the one that led between eleven and fourteen little ones out of 
>one of our boxes.  Our lake is historically quite inhospitable to your 
>Woodies, although I have never figured out why they fare so much more 
>poorly than the Mallards.
>
>I hope Cherie's list is not so long that I can't get out.
>
>Steve Weston on Quiggley Lake in Eagan, MN
>sweston2@comcast.net
>
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