[mou] Upcoming Field Trips

[Williams, Bob]

Here is a list of upcoming MOU field trips and sponsored events:
 
April 26th-27th - Salt Lake Weekend(Lac Qui Parle and Big Stone
Counties)  Birders will meet for breakfast at 7am on Saturday morning at
the Marietta American Legion located one block west of Co. Rd. 7 on Hwy
40.  They will form into groups and head out from there for the morning.
At noon they will meet back there for lunch and then head back out for
more birding.  Saturday night there is a chicken dinner at 7:30pm at the
Sons of Norway Hall on Hwy 75 in Madison, eleven miles east of Marietta.
Reservations are required for the dinner and can be made with Becky
Skallerud at 320-598-5554 or at beckaberk at yahoo.com.  The cost for the
dinner is $10.  Lodging is available in Madison, Montevideo, Dawson,
Appleton or Canby.  Camping is available at Prairie Marsh Farm, 1770
151st Ave.., Marietta, located 7 miles west of US 75 and 1.5 miles south
of US 212.  Contact Ken Larson at prairiemarshfarm at comcast.net for more
information.  This event is open to the public.  
 
May 4th - Crane Meadows NWR(Morrison County)  Birders will meet at 8am
at the Platte River lookout deck, the first trailhead on your left as
you enter on the headquarters road.  Lunch will be provided.  Afternoon
birding groups will cover off-refuge sites including the Schoessling
Unit, Lindbergh State Park, and other sites close to Crane Meadows. To
register, go to www.mcbirding.org <http://www.mcbirding.org/>  or call
the Little Falls Convention and Visitor's Center at 320-616-4959.  This
trip will be lead by Milt Blomberg (mjbflw at msn.com)(320-656-5272) and
Frank Gosiak(fgosiak at holdingford.k12.mn.us).
This event is free and open to the public.
 
May 17th - Sherburne NWR(Sherburne County)  Birders will meet at 7am and
bird until noon with an optional afternoon trip.  This trip is currently
full, but there is a waiting list.
Contact Al Schirmacher at pastoral at princetonfreechurch.net for more
information.  This even is free and open to the public.
 
June 6th-7th - Eagle Bluff Environmental Learning Center(Fillmore
County)  Birders will arrive at the learning center on Friday in time
for dinner.  Birders will then do some night birding for owls and
Whip-poor-wills.  On Saturday birders will hike the trails on site with
the staff naturalist.  There is a fee of $70 per person for this trip
which covers lodging on Friday night and 3 meals.  We currently have 13
registered for this trip and 
are taking registration for a couple more.  Contact Bob Williams at
bxwilliams at cbburnet.com or 612-728-2232 to register or get more
information. This event is open to the public.
 
June 21st - Aitkin County  Birders will meet at 7am and bird until noon
with an optional afternoon trip.  The focus will be on the areas north
and east of the town of Aitkin and Rice Lake NWR.  This trip is
currently full, but there is a waiting list.  Contact Al Schirmacher at
pastoral at princetonfreechurch.net for more information.  This event is
free and open to the public.
 
August 1st-3rd - Shorebird Workshop  The previously mentioned workshop
on August 8th-10th is currently full.  For more information on these
special workshops please go to www.itctel.com/buri/SHOREBIRD 
 
These field trips are in addition to Kim Eckert's Minnesota Birding
Weekends.  Information about those trips(including the registration
procedure and a form) can be found on the MOU website
(http://moumn.org/trips.html), on Bob Ekblad's website
(http://www.birding-minnesota.com/MN-MBW.htm), and in MOU's newsletter,
Minnesota Birding.  Kim Eckert can be reached at eckertkr at gmail.com or
at 218-525-6930. 
 
If anyone would like to lead a field trip, please contact me at
bxwilliams at cbburnet.com or at 612-728-2232.
 
Bob Williams, MOU Field Trip Coordinator
 
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