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Sorry about no updates from here recently, its that time of year. There were some pretty pointed comments (ranting and raving) about people who live in rural areas "up north" that made me sit back a while. They were made last winter by a person who no longer contributes to these pages apparently. Part of the child like name calling posting, I refer to, said we just did not understand the opportunities the birds could provide us. So I have included some opportunities for the less fortunate? below (no offense, just mean to share, lol). As I said this winter you will not find this place cruising the roads. I did have a visitor from England this winter who got to see pine and evening grosbeaks (his goal) and a pileated woodpecker while he visited briefly (he had contacted me from off this list based on my postings) . I also hosted a couple well known professional photographers (one of which stayed a week). Only feeder bird of note not back now, is indigo bunting. Front yard Duck boxes are used fairly regularly. Some days I will see them go in or out (or sit on top) 3-4 times without really watching closely. Yard birds: 20 + wood ducks feeding (mostly males) (goal is 50 this year) mallards Rose breasted grosbeaks returned about 1 week ago (2 males and 1 female feeding so far) Orioles and hummingbirds returned yesterday Evening grosbeaks still present (they are year round and daily here) both nuthatches feeding (red and white) purple finches and gold finches pine siskins pretty thick black capped chickadees pelicans (50-100 within a mile and a half) mourning doves red winged black birds blue jays (lots) cow birds grackle common mergansers (occasionally sit on nesting boxes) occasional pileated woodpecker (heard more than seen) I think that there are a couple barred owl? territories close by as hear them calling from different areas every night Front Yard river Birds golden eyes (using front yard nesting boxes) Canadian geese (don't know particular variety) bald eagles (most young have hatched out) occasional king fisher Have not seen a hooded merganser for a while Cruising Birds Groups of sandhill cranes and individuals, (mostly Lake of the Woods county) Ravens, crows a pair of great gray owls probably breeding about 10 miles south of here (NE 1/4 22-158-27 for the location collector). Also walked up on an individual by Big Falls 4-5 weeks ago (SENW 11-154-25). That property is for sale cheap if anyone is interested about 88m for 220 acres I think, tough access though. purple martins are back at neighbors (largest colony in county) ruffed grouse still drumming Sorry I'm not very good on the warblers and sparrows. I do have a fairly broad knowledge of many other natural resources (like the morel picking is good when the oak leaves are the size of a mouses ear). What was that name he called us? LOL. Large flowered bellwort in prime bloom right now, morel picking should peak shortly and asparagus picking should start real soon. I have a long list of the birds that were seen on the spring rendezvous at Voyageurs Nat'l. Park (VNP) on the spring birders rendezvous w/e in 2003. I think it is usually the first w/e in june. If your interested you could contact Tawnya Shoewe at VNP. Sorry about the scan quality but if there is a particular bird your interested in maybe you can make it out. MOU kicked out last mail due to size so I took the attachment off but I will send it to anyone who desires it. I do rent beds in a rustic (unfinished) log home on occasion if anyone is interested. It is an extremely private location. Given notice I can also outfit a 1 bedroom apartment in a walkout basement with many windows. I am located on the Canadian border on the Rainy River. There is a overly friendly golden retriever that only understands the word no that you would also have to put up with. Location is between Baudette and International Falls. Excuse me if this is not the proper forum for this but I rarely advertise and you will not find me under motels and hotels. Take Care, Tom 218 634 1310 --------------000204080809020100000307 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Sorry about no updates from here recently, its that time of year. There were some pretty pointed comments (ranting and raving) about people who live in rural areas "up north" that made me sit back a while. They were made last winter by a person who no longer contributes to these pages apparently. Part of the child like name calling posting, I refer to, said we just did not understand the opportunities the birds could provide us. So I have included some opportunities for the less fortunate? below (no offense, just mean to share, lol). As I said this winter you will not find this place cruising the roads. I did have a visitor from England this winter who got to see pine and evening grosbeaks (his goal) and a pileated woodpecker while he visited briefly (he had contacted me from off this list based on my postings) . I also hosted a couple well known professional photographers (one of which stayed a week). Only feeder bird of note not back now, is indigo bunting. Front yard Duck boxes are used fairly regularly. Some days I will see them go in or out (or sit on top) 3-4 times without really watching closely.<br> <u><b>Yard birds:</b></u><br> 20 + wood ducks feeding (mostly males) (goal is 50 this year)<br> mallards<br> Rose breasted grosbeaks returned about 1 week ago (2 males and 1 female feeding so far)<br> Orioles and hummingbirds returned yesterday<br> Evening grosbeaks still present (they are year round and daily here)<br> both nuthatches feeding (red and white)<br> purple finches and gold finches<br> pine siskins pretty thick<br> black capped chickadees<br> pelicans (50-100 within a mile and a half)<br> mourning doves<br> red winged black birds<br> blue jays (lots)<br> cow birds<br> grackle<br> common mergansers (occasionally sit on nesting boxes)<br> occasional pileated woodpecker (heard more than seen)<br> I think that there are a couple barred owl? territories close by as hear them calling from different areas every night<br> <u><b>Front Yard river Birds</b></u><br> golden eyes (using front yard nesting boxes)<br> Canadian geese (don't know particular variety)<br> bald eagles (most young have hatched out) <br> occasional king fisher<br> Have not seen a hooded merganser for a while<br> <u><b>Cruising Birds</b></u><br> Groups of sandhill cranes and individuals, (mostly Lake of the Woods county) <br> Ravens, crows <br> a pair of great gray owls probably breeding about 10 miles south of here (NE 1/4 22-158-27 for the location collector). Also walked up on an individual by Big Falls 4-5 weeks ago (SENW 11-154-25). That property is for sale cheap if anyone is interested about 88m for 220 acres I think, tough access though. <br> purple martins are back at neighbors (largest colony in county)<br> ruffed grouse still drumming<br> <br> Sorry I'm not very good on the warblers and sparrows. I do have a fairly broad knowledge of many other natural resources (like the morel picking is good when the oak leaves are the size of a mouses ear). What was that name he called us? LOL. Large flowered bellwort in prime bloom right now, morel picking should peak shortly and asparagus picking should start real soon. I have a long list of the birds that were seen on the spring rendezvous at Voyageurs Nat'l. Park (VNP) on the spring birders rendezvous w/e in 2003. I think it is usually the first w/e in june. If your interested you could contact Tawnya Shoewe at VNP. Sorry about the scan quality but if there is a particular bird your interested in maybe you can make it out. MOU kicked out last mail due to size so I took the attachment off but I will send it to anyone who desires it.<br> <br> I do rent beds in a rustic (unfinished) log home on occasion if anyone is interested. It is an extremely private location. Given notice I can also outfit a 1 bedroom apartment in a walkout basement with many windows. I am located on the Canadian border on the Rainy River. There is a overly friendly golden retriever that only understands the word no that you would also have to put up with. Location is between Baudette and International Falls. Excuse me if this is not the proper forum for this but I rarely advertise and you will not find me under motels and hotels.<br> Take Care, Tom<br> 218 634 1310 </body> </html> --------------000204080809020100000307--
