Re: [mou-net] Fwd: Top2040: Top 40 Songs About Birds

2022-09-01 Thread Jared Del Rosso
a, the band Big Thief, which has some connections to the state, has a lovely song called "Cattails," which mentions loons. Finally -- I'd welcome emails, off list, about birders' experiences with Eastern Whip-poor-wills and Common Nighthawks. - Jared Del Rosso Denver, CO (formerly

[mou-net] Cloquet Snowy & Barred Owls

2013-12-28 Thread Jared Del Rosso
My brother-in-law spotted a snowy owl fly-over and perch on the Queen of Peace Parish church (4th St and Avenue F.) in Cloquet around dusk today (Saturday, December 28). I watched it for about 20-30 minutes before it flew off north toward the downtown / St. Louis River area. I spotted a barred owl

[mou-net] Cloquet (Carlton County) - Snowy Owl @ Catholic Church at 4:30 pm.

2013-12-29 Thread Jared Del Rosso
The Cloquet snowy owl has returned to the top of the Catholic Church. This is around 4th St and Avenue F. It is there as of writing... Best, Jared -- JDR Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html

[mou-net] Perched Common Nighthawk - Crosby Farms Regional Park - St. Paul, MN

2014-06-02 Thread Jared Del Rosso
m the marina.) The bird was quite visible from the road where I observed it from my car on the way out from the park after walking my dog. It looked a bit like a knot in the middle of the branch, as it was perched atop an open branch, 12-15 feet above the trail that runs along the road. - Jared Del Ros

[mou-net] "White-winged" Crow - Crosby Farm Regional Park - Ramsey County

2014-09-16 Thread Jared Del Rosso
to get any photographs. It appeared to have a white feather on each of its wings. Though not an uncommon or rare bird, the crow is striking and, for a photographer, might be worth the effort of tracking down. - Jared Del Rosso, St. Paul, MN -- JDR Join or Leave mou-net: http://list

Re: [mou-net] Jonathan Franzen's article in current New Yorker magazine--- link

2015-04-02 Thread Jared Del Rosso
ues other than Minnesota, birds and glass, and the Vikings' new stadium. - Jared Del Rosso Denver, CO Formerly St. Paul, MN On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 2:13 PM, Gordon Andersson wrote: > Here is the link to the entire article "Carbon Capture" by Franzen. I > havent read it thru yet,

Re: [mou-net] Chickadees on marijuana

2020-10-02 Thread Jared Del Rosso
. They argued that the seeds were indispensible to the production of healthy squabs; other seeds "changed the character" of the bird. (My source is the sociologist Howard Becker's book *Outsiders: Studies in the Sociology of Deviance.)* - Jared Del Rosso Centennial, Colorado (formerl