Minnesota Birds

Re: [mnbird] mnbird Digest, Vol 67, Issue 43

Thu, 24 May 2012 23:12:40 -0500

Hi Nathan:

Not all of us follow every email from bird list. Words like "the bird",
"potential suspect", "It was singing", uncooperative thing, and "the bird"
really don't help me understand what you are talking about.

Thanks,

John Hamer
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[mnbird] Canada Warbler and other migrants at Westwood Hills Nature Center, St Louis Park, Hennepin

Thu, 24 May 2012 22:39:14 -0500

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During our late afternoon respite from the rains, I stopped at Westwood
Hills Nature Center to see if the storms had stalled any migrants. I
encountered a loose flock of migrants northwest of the parking lot,
centered near the small pond crossed by arched wooden bridge. Highlight for
me was a beautiful

[mnbird] Shorebirds - 180th Street, Dakota County 5/24

Thu, 24 May 2012 21:20:00 -0500

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There was a nice variety of shorebirds in the flooded fields south of 180th Street east of the marsh (just west of Goodwin Ave.)
Black-bellied Plover 6
Killdeer 2
Spotted Sandpiper 2
Ruddy Turnstone 3
Semipalmated Sandpiper 50
Least Sandpiper 25
Pectoral Sandpiper 10
Short-billed Dowitcher 2
Wilson's

[mnbird] Northwest Minnesota Birding Report- Thursday, May 24, 2012

Thu, 24 May 2012 20:12:48 -0500

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This is the Northwest Minnesota Birding Report for Thursday, May 24, 2012
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.

Here is the northwest migration appears to be largely over,

Re: [mnbird] Common Night Hawks

Thu, 24 May 2012 13:30:52 -0500

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[mnbird] yellow warbler i.d. help

Thu, 24 May 2012 09:30:56 -0500

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This morning as I sat staring out into the rain, a yellow warbler type bird appeared next to the window on the bird feeder. It had a more brown back and wagged it's tail. It made a couple "chip" calls

[mnbird] Quantum Zeno Effect and the Avian Compass -- new physics paper

Wed, 23 May 2012 21:18:59 -0500

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Hi -- still wondering how the magic of migration happens? Even though the
science is beyond most of us here is a brand new paper pdf on the subject.
I personally find this very fascinating as it's based on radical ions which
I.K. Kominis shows applies to many other systems

[mnbird] Common Night Hawks

Wed, 23 May 2012 20:53:07 -0500

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half dozen night hawks fetching dinner overhead in Hugo this week at dusk- very high

Date: Wed, 23 May 2012 11:25:48 -0500
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I was at Lebanon Hills Schultz Lake entrance last night looking for the bird

[mnbird] Purgatory Creek shorebirds, Hennepin County 5/23

Wed, 23 May 2012 20:41:18 -0500

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Just returned from a quick dash out to the Purgatory Creek wetlands to check for any shorebirds that may have come in ahead of the storm.
I was happy to see that 3 Hudsonian Godwits and 1 Marbled Godwit had joined the Short-billed Dowitchers, Semipalmated Plovers and others

[mnbird] Hooded Warbler, Afton SP, belated post

Wed, 23 May 2012 19:37:25 -0500

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(I apologize for the tardiness of this post.)
In mid-morning on Monday, there was a Hooded Warbler in Afton State Park,
at the top of the bluff, along the paved trail through the picnic area. It
was almost directly across from the first bathroom. It gave its signature
call twice, which is

[mnbird] Prothonotary Warbler, Crosby Farm Park, St. Paul

Wed, 23 May 2012 19:21:09 -0500

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A Prothonotary Warbler has returned to the traditional nesting area in the
backwaters at the east end of Crosby Farm Park in St. Paul. Last week it
was heard singing on the temporary "island" just west of, and below, the
35E bridge. At that time, it allowed barely a look, as

[mnbird] MVNWR - Black Dog Preserve - Dakota County - 5/23/12

Wed, 23 May 2012 13:56:43 -0500

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May 23, 2012 Noon to 1:00 pm Just returned from a short walk at the Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuges, Black Dog unit. Directions to this unit and other Refuge units, can be found on the Refuges web site. Which can be found with a

[mnbird] Hooded Warbler still at Lebanon Hills

Wed, 23 May 2012 11:25:48 -0500

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I was at Lebanon Hills Schultz Lake entrance last night looking for the
bird and got a glimpse of a potential suspect but could not confirm. This
morning I returned a little after seven and picked up the bird a little
before 8. It was singing clearly, and was about 100

[mnbird] Henslow's Sparrow

Wed, 23 May 2012 07:53:26 -0500

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The Henslow's Sparrow that nested on our property last year is back
again. Welcome back!

Mound Prairie Township
Houston County, MN

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[mnbird] Duluth morning sightings, with Ovenbird photos

Tue, 22 May 2012 13:13:06 -0500

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This morning I took a walk to Hartley Nature Center (northeast side of
Duluth) to hike around and soak up some of the beautiful spring elements
that are now coming out up here. The 1-mile round trip hike was a lot of
fun, and it is nice to hear many warblers

[mnbird] Carver County

Tue, 22 May 2012 11:04:54 -0500

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While numbers of migrant warbler have been poor in the county,
shorebirding in the New Germany area has been pretty good over the past
week. I have only been able to manage 12 warbler species since May 17
with the best being 2 male Mourning Warbler

[mnbird] Sax-Zim Bog today - Connecticut, Mourning, Blackburnian and much more (with photos)

Mon, 21 May 2012 22:37:56 -0500

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I arrived at Sax-Zim Bog around 5am this morning to show a visiting
birdwatcher around the area. The birding trip was so much fun! Our day
started off by walking through the peat trails which meander through the
tamarack & black spruce bog areas. Upon setting foot in the peat

[mnbird] Wright - tricolored heron - no

Mon, 21 May 2012 18:13:18 -0500

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I spent a couple of hours this morning searching areas near where Milt Blomberg found the tri-colored heron - without success. There's a lot of possible habitat there - some not easily accessed - so I hope others will search too.

Thanks, Milt, for your post. Wish I

[mnbird] Morrison/Benton County - 5/21/12

Mon, 21 May 2012 17:49:04 -0500

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May 21, 2012

Spent the afternoon birding in Morrison and Benton counties. With some nice results. Here are a few of the species I observed today.

Snow Goose - Benton County - Observed on the North side of the small pond, in the SE corner

[mnbird] Stearns Co. shorebirds

Mon, 21 May 2012 15:46:33 -0500

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I thought my shorebird search was going to be a bust today - only one at Albany sewage ponds was a spotted sandpiper. That was it! Found one excellent spot, on Stearns CR 4, 1.2 miles south of I-94 at the Meire Grove exit. Floodplain of the Sauk

[mnbird] Vet's Park Richfield--Connecticut Warbler still there; Brown Pelicans flyover

Mon, 21 May 2012 15:08:54 -0500

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My wife and I visited Veteran's Memorial Park in Richfield, and found the singing Connecticut Warbler first reported (I believe) by Scott Meyer. This bird was singing quite loudly near the SE corner of the park. We heard and located the bird shortly before noon, and it

[mnbird] Hooded Warbler, Lebanon Hills regional Park

Mon, 21 May 2012 14:33:43 -0500

I had my Field Ornithology class out this morning (Monday) at the
Lebanon Hills Regional Park Visitors Center in Eagan (off of Cliff
Road) where we came upon a very loud male Hooded Warbler sitting over
the hiking trail. The spot we found him at is along the trail on the
south side of

[mnbird] Purgatory creek eden prairie, hennepin

Mon, 21 May 2012 12:59:13 -0500

Seen from the gravel road are some shorebirds and a white bird maybe a tern. Only own a pair of binoculars. I would like to know what the white bird is so if anyone is out birding today with a scope? It seems too large for a gull.

[mnbird] Bluebird numbers?

Mon, 21 May 2012 12:07:17 -0500

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It occurs to me that I haven't heard any bluebirds calling when I ride to
work through Como Park, where they are normally quite common. Nor were
there any in two normally reliable places last week on the Gateway Trail.
I hope that

[mnbird] Connecticut Warbler: Veteran's Park, Richfield, Hennepin Co

Mon, 21 May 2012 09:11:28 -0500

Thanks to Scott Meyer's direction, I am listening and seeing a male Connecticut Warbler now at 830-845. Bird actively singing but tends to be eye-level and above.

On east side of lake. On middle trail that is south of where biking trail intersects foot path. Landmark on this trail: Seen near

[mnbird] Benton, Morrison, Stearns, Crow Wing Counties - MBW - 5/18 - 20/2012 - Trip Report

Mon, 21 May 2012 06:49:25 -0500

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May 18 - 20 2012 While leading a Minnesota Birding Weekend trip, with the help of Herb Dingmann to Benton County and one along the Mississippi River between Brainerd and St. Cloud, our group observed 133 species over the three days. Here are some of the

[mnbird] Twin Lakes, aka Langdon Lake Park, Roseville

Sun, 20 May 2012 23:04:26 -0500

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Canada geese, 8, plus 15 goslings
Wood ducks, 4, plus 7 ducklings
Green herons, 3
White egrets, 3
Red winged blackbird
Am. Robin
Mallard
Crow
N. Oriole, heard
Great crested flycatcher, heard
Bluebird, on road into park

11 am, drizzling, quite windy, 50
Was curious about this May so far, has it had above-average wind?

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[mnbird] Tircolored Heron...alert Wright County (long)

Sun, 20 May 2012 22:46:22 -0500

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Hello all, Early-rise birding in the Succonix WMA area southward in Clearwater Twnshp, and I suspect the Sugar Lake area, I observed at 6am in flight for ~45 seconds a Tri-colored Heron, but haven't been able to re-locate it this afternoon, including an attempt by

Re: [mnbird] Detroit Lakes/ NW MN Birds?

Sun, 20 May 2012 22:44:27 -0500

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My husband & I were in Itasca State park this past weekend. We missed the
Detroit Lakes birding festival; BUT we saw tons of warblers along the shores
of Lake Itasca.. Northern Parulas everywhere, Blackburnian, golden winged,
and tons of oven birds, and

[mnbird] Birding about the Metro

Sun, 20 May 2012 21:32:39 -0500

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After a wet morning finding nothing special, but enjoyable birds in quiet
wet, wet paths in a park in central Dakota county, I found
Dickcissels! I found two first of the year Dickcissels at Randolph
industrial park (Hwy 56 & 284th St).

After the industrial park I went to a gravel

[mnbird] Empids at Hyland Park, Bloomington

Sun, 20 May 2012 20:57:24 -0500

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This evening, along the westernmost jogging path connecting Richardson Nature center and Hyland lake, we observed both a Willow and an Acadian flycatcher. The latter surprised me, as I know they don't go much further north, and the open area it was using was not breeding habitat. It

[mnbird] Rice Lake State Park

Sun, 20 May 2012 20:43:09 -0500

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After hearing that Rice Lake is a possible Yellow-headed Blackbird site, I visited there today. It was pretty windy and I did not find any YHB's, but I did find lots of Great Crested Flycatchers!

Melissa Gerken
Goodhue County
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[mnbird] Detroit Lakes/ NW MN Birds?

Sun, 20 May 2012 18:10:01 -0500

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It seems to me there was some big birding event in Detroit Lakes this past weekend, wasn't there? The birding must have been really poor, since I haven't seen a single post about what was found up there. Too bad...I've heard that at one time, it was a

[mnbird] help with identification

Sun, 20 May 2012 17:23:58 -0500

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I recently visited the MVNWR and I believe to have photographed a Great
Crested Flycatcher. would someone please verify?

lansonkleinphotography.wordpress.com/mvnwr-long-meadow-lake-unit-2012

Thanks

Lance

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I recently visited the MVNWR and I believe to have photographed a Great Crested Flycatcher. would someone please verify?<div><br></div><div><a href="http://lansonkleinphotography.wordpress.com/mvnwr-long-meadow-lake-unit-2012">lansonkleinphotography.wordpress.com/mvnwr-long-meadow-lake-unit-2012</a></div>
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[mnbird] Snowy Egret, Nelson's Sparrow - south metro

Sun, 20 May 2012 14:07:21 -0500

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I was birding with Tod Eggenberger today (Sunday) in the south metro area, and we saw a Snowy Egret at Veterans Memorial Park in Richfield and got to hear a Nelson's Sharp-tailed Sparrow at Old Cedar Avenue Park. The Snowy Egret was at the edge of

[mnbird] Snowy Egret Vets park Hennepin Co

Sun, 20 May 2012 12:11:30 -0500

There is a Snowy Egret near the Ice Arena
Scott B Meyer

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[mnbird] Two Singing Connecticut Warblers Veterans Memorial Park, Richfield Hennepin County. May 20th, 2012

Sun, 20 May 2012 08:13:46 -0500

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I found two singing Connecticut Warblers this morning at Veterans Memorial
Park prior to 8:00 AM. One was on the 66th St. side directly across from
the Garden Shop next to the walking path near to the water. The other was
on an interior walking path on the East

[mnbird] Black Terns

Sat, 19 May 2012 13:53:53 -0500

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YAY! The Black Terns are back at White water Mngmt area! I just think they're so beautiful. They are swooping and diving over the same area where the Yellos-headed Blackbirds are at the far end of the first pond when entering from the HWY 61 end. There's

[mnbird] Prothonotary Warbler Veterans Memorial Park, Richfield Hennepin County May 19th 2012

Sat, 19 May 2012 13:50:55 -0500

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Lane Elwinger found a male Prothonotary Warbler on the east side of
Veterans Memorial Park at 1:00 PM. We relocated the bird, which was
singing, just north of the SE entrance on 11th Street behind the first 3
houses on the Park side. It was moving around the area

[mnbird] Wirth Park (MPLS) and White Bear Lake (Ramsey Co)

Sat, 19 May 2012 12:21:56 -0500

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This morning there were pectoral sandpipers and white-rumped sandpipers (reported by Conny Brunell) at Theodore Wirth Beach area (3200 Glenwood Ave MPLS). I didnt see the dowitcher. Also saw several least sandpipers including a couple that looked much darker than

[mnbird] Trumpeter Swans, Richardson Nature Center, Bloomington

Fri, 18 May 2012 20:38:03 -0500

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There is a pair of Trumpeters in the small pond right below the Osprey tower. If you park at Bush Lake Beach, on E. Bush Lake Rd., and cross the street, the pond is right there. They have been there for about a week now; I forgot to

Re: [mnbird] mnbird Digest, Vol 67, Issue 34

Fri, 18 May 2012 11:51:17 -0500

My harddrive failed! Password was auto. Now I don't remember it. I have "brdhog" in my Palm, but doesn't work. Can you tell Me? Jim
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1. Northwest Minnesota Birding Report- Thursday, May 17, 2012
(Jeanie Joppru)

[mnbird] Veterans Memorial Park, Richfield, Hennepin Co. 8 Warbler Species, Lincoln's Sparrow

Fri, 18 May 2012 09:37:22 -0500

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Still very slow morning for warblers (8) including Mourning,
Chestnut-Sided, Magnolia, and Northern Parula. Although there is not much
variety in Sparrows, I was able to see one Lincoln's.

Scott B. Meyer
Hennepin County

Veterans Memorial Park, Hennepin, US-MN
May 18, 2012 6:00 AM - 8:00 AM
Protocol: Traveling
0.8 mile(s)
46 species

Canada Goose 29
Wood

[mnbird] MRVAC meeting Thursday 5-24

Fri, 18 May 2012 00:03:10 -0500

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*Why are Wild Turkey's so Successful in Urban Areas?
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By Karl Tinsley, University of Minnesota

Join us to hear about Karls research on urban Wild Turkeys home ranges and
successful versus unsuccessful nest sites. "I am conducting a telemetry
study examining the behavioral response of wild turkeys (Meleagris
gallopavo) to the urban

[mnbird] Northwest Minnesota Birding Report- Thursday, May 17, 2012

Thu, 17 May 2012 21:24:34 -0500

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This is the Northwest Minnesota Birding Report for Thursday, May 17, 2012
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.

Birds continue to pour north at a quick pace now

[mnbird] A Yard First...

Thu, 17 May 2012 18:59:44 -0500

Good evening to all, I hope everyone survived the strong winds today.

My carport robins fledged today, all 4 (I originally thought only 3)
have left the nest since early morning. The first 2 were adventurous
early, but the last two hung in until just a little bit ago.

[mnbird] listserv sightings and recent warbler/songbird photos to share

Thu, 17 May 2012 15:16:50 -0500

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Last week, I spent 10 days in Ohio attending the Biggest Week in American
Birding Festival, based out of the Black Swamp Bird Observatory. This bird
observatory is adjacent to the renowned Magee Marsh (Oak Harbor, OH), where
incredible movements of warblers and many other songbirds take place during
the month of

[mnbird] Veterans Memorial Park, Richfield Hennepin County, Very Few Migrants and One less nesting bird (Barn Swallows) May 17, 2012

Thu, 17 May 2012 12:58:40 -0500

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Very slow at Veterans this morning with little activity or singing other
than the resident birds: Baltimore Orioles, Warbling Vireos, Common
Yellowthroat, Yellow Warbler and Sora. Otherwise only Tennessee Warblers
singing away.
I was also disturbed to see a City of Richfield water truck parked under
the Farmers Market Shelter.

[mnbird] Maple Grove and Florida

Thu, 17 May 2012 11:15:17 -0500

<html><body><span style="font-family:Verdana; color:#000000; font-size:10pt;"><div>Been too busy to window bird for the last year or so but took time to play with my new camera yesterday eve. Posting on my feeders (finally filled again) to test my 10 frames per second Sony DSL on a hummingbird that keeps coming around. Then