[mou] Birding around the metro
Matthew Boisen
docmattb@hotmail.com
Fri, 08 Sep 2006 13:16:06 +0000
<html><div style='background-color:'><P>The sky over Owatonna was filled with nighthawks last night and the yard is a-twitter with warblers. A front must be coming through!</P>
<P>Matt Boisen<FONT face="Lucida Handwriting, Cursive"></P>
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From: <I>"Steve Weston" <sweston2@comcast.net></I><BR>To: <I>"mnbird" <mnbird@lists.mnbird.net>,"Mou-net" <mou-net@cbs.umn.edu></I><BR>Subject: <I>[mou] Birding around the metro</I><BR>Date: <I>Fri, 8 Sep 2006 01:34:00 -0500</I><BR>>On Saturday I found the first flock of White-throated Sparrows of <BR>>the fall.<BR>><BR>>On Labor Day, I had a male Coopers Hawk pursuing a female as they <BR>>flew into my yard. Interesting was the Leopard Frogs were calling <BR>>in the back yard. While this spring we had great choruses of Copes <BR>>Gray Treefrogs and American Toads, I heard no Leopard Frogs. But <BR>>the Leopard Frogs are along the shore in large numbers. I don't <BR>>know why I missed hearing them.<BR>><BR>>I stopped by 140th Street marsh in Rosemount today at dusk. The <BR>>water level is very low, and quite choked with algae. There
were <BR>>several Lesser Yellowlegs and Pectoral Sandpipers.<BR>><BR>>The best bird of the day was the Osprey flying twenty of thirty feet <BR>>high near Snelling and CR C in Roseville.<BR>><BR>>Steve Weston on Quiggley Lake in Eagan, MN<BR>>sweston2@comcast.net<BR>><BR>><BR>>_______________________________________________<BR>>mou-net mailing list<BR>>mou-net@cbs.umn.edu<BR>>http://cbs.umn.edu/mailman/listinfo/mou-net<BR></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></div></html>