Thanks so much for the responses everyone! Sharon
Sent from my iPhone > On Dec 5, 2018, at 2:58 PM, JANET JOHNSON <[email protected]> wrote: > > No, it wouldn't verify the environment is warming. The last 2 years have > actually been cooler. > >> On December 5, 2018 at 2:31 PM [email protected] wrote: >> >> >> Which would verify the science that the environment is warming . . . . which >> allows birds such as robins to overwinter here now. It hasn't been uncommon >> for 5-8 years in the Cities. >> >> Quoting Mary M White / Charles R Neil <[email protected]>: >> >>> But isn't it true that large numbers of over-wintering robins in the Twin >>> Cities is a relatively new phenomenon? I am now 67 and grew-up in St. Paul, >>> and it seems to me that very few robins overwintered when I was a boy. >>> There were likely many fewer Twin Cities Christmas counts in the 1950s and >>> 60s, but my guess is that a review of those counts would show that >>> over-wintering robins were rare at that time. >>> Chuck Neil, Embarrass >>> >>>> On Wed, Dec 5, 2018 at 12:15 PM Manley Olson <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> Robins regularly overwinter, sometimes in large numbers. Counts in the >>>> hundreds have been recorded on area Christmas counts. As long as the >>>> crab apples hold out you will see them in your yard. I have seen a few >>>> this past week. >>>> Manley Olson Minneapolis >>>> >>>>> On 12/5/2018 11:53 AM, Sharon Fischtrom wrote: >>>>> I?m curious - I have a flock of robins hanging out in my crab apple tree >>>> - shouldn?t they get the heck out of here? Like last month? >>>>> >>>>> Sharon Fischtrom >>>>> St. Paul Highland Park >>>>> >>>>> Sent from my iPhone >>>>> >>>>>> On Dec 5, 2018, at 11:27 AM, Bruce Baer <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> The Northern Raven was seen at the Bass Ponds at 9:30 this morning >>>> sitting in the trees along Long Meadow Lake. Then flying across to the >>>> north side. A look at the bird feeders at the refuge HQ might find it. >>>> Still large numbers of Hooded Mergansers present with Lesser Scaup, >>>> Ring-neck Duck, two swans, a hybrid Mallard, kingfisher. >>>>>> >>>>>> Bruce Baer >>>>>> >>>>>> Bloomington >>>>>> >>>>>> ---- >>>>>> Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net >>>>>> Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html >>>>> ---- >>>>> Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net >>>>> Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html >>>>> >>>> >>>> ---- >>>> Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net >>>> Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html >>>> >>> >>> ---- >>> Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net >>> Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html >>> >> >> ---- >> Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net >> Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html > > ---- > Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net > Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
