Hi From what i can see from the Christian's photo's this is indeed a 1st winter Glaucous-winged Gull. It would have been good to have a frame of the full bird...
Hello all, This afternoon I checked the gulls around the Brady Rd. dump. There are thousands of birds, and they congregated in several areas. First I checked...
Rudolf Koes
rkoes@...
Nov 1, 2004 11:21 pm
5048
Hi, I got the visit of a northern shrike at my feeders yesterday. It surely scared off every other birds. ===== Luc Blanchette St-Jean-Baptiste ...
Hi all, Adam Walleyn & I did a November Big Day today (Nov. 1st), visiting (in order) Victoria Beach, Grand Beach/Grand Marais, Gull Lake, Patricia Beach, Oak...
thanx for the interesting comments Derrick! much appreciated! unfortunately i don't have a better photo on the ground. I normally don't like to invoke the "h"...
Hi all, I went looking for a Lesser Black-backed Gull around the Brady Rd. landfill today. I didn't see one. I did, however, definitely see two, probably...
Hi All After getting the report of their presence yesterday, I went looking for my life Lesser black-backed gull this afternoon. I was viewing the huge flock...
I think the pine siskins at my feeders have moved on. Yesterday I only had one left, sob. Now there are none today. Thankfully along with a few juncos there...
Our backyard feeders are still being visited by 15-30 squabbaling Pine Siskins, depending on the day. We have a group of 12 Evening Grosbeaks that come by for...
Some flocks of Common Red polls passed through our bush -- West of Souris, and yesterday a flock of sparrows -- I think American Tree Sparrows were in a tree...
Barb/Tom Alston
tbalston@...
Nov 5, 2004 2:36 am
5058
I have a friend who has an injured owl on his front yard in Steinbach. He's not sure what the cause of the injury is. It has apparently been sitting on his...
http://www.mwro.mb.ca/contact_e.htm The MWRO Centre is located on the University of Manitoba Glenlea Research Station, on Research Station Road, 15 kilometres...
An adult Lesser Black-backed Gull was still present on the south side of the Brady Landfill today (Friday). Best viewing was to go south on Waverly, then turn...
Hi all, I've added Christian Artuso's Lesser Black-backed Gull photo to the folder with his other photos in the Photos section. If anyone can't access it for...
Hello all , On the way back from the MNS field trip to The Beaches today , I managed ( easily ) to convince my car-mates Nella Schmidt and James Whitelaw to...
Hi all, I took a quick run south of the Brady Road Landfill this morning. At the intersection of Waverley & Rue des Trappistes I encountered Bob Shettler who...
Hello, The forecast of a passing cold front and subsequent northwest winds combined with a curiosity of never having observed this late in the season, I...
Hi All Spotted a Northern Hawk Owl at 8:15 a.m. Sunday just west of the corner of Wilkes and Fairmont on the north side of the tracks. Was sitting at the tip...
Ron Wiebe
ronemmy@...
Nov 7, 2004 2:55 pm
5067
Good day all, I checked the Brady dump today but didn't stay long as it was rather unpleasant with the strong North winds and there weren't many gulls there...
Hello, Thought I was done hawk watching for the season, but continuing northwest winds prompted another visit to Whytewold field. 2.5 hours of observation ...
Hi, I saw two rough-legged hawks going south along the Red River this afternoon, around Ste-Agathe (one south and the other one north of town). Luc Blanchette ...
Hi all, since some may be interested, i will forward to the group a part of a recent message from Janis McCarthy regarding the Harlequin Duck that showed up in...
Eight members of the Brandon Naturalists spent a few hours Saturday afternoon birding in the Minnedosa area. The birding picked up as the cold front moved in....
Thanks for posting this Christian. I had been wondering what had happended to our poor little friend. Sorry to hear such sad news. Morris Sorensen Winnipeg ......
Hello all, While thousands of Canada Geese pulled out yesterday afternoon, there are still a lot of birds at the marsh. I spent a few hours there this...
Rudolf Koes
rkoes@...
Nov 9, 2004 12:41 am
5074
Hi Rudolf I didn't realize that no-one else saw snow buntings. While travelling North, Brigitte and I had a flock of about 50 on the E. side of 59 not far...
Hi, I saw a flock of 50 or more snow buntings last Thursday travelling on #2 ( near Fannystelle) and another smaller flock east of Starbuck . Agnes Cormier ...
