I spent sometime yesterday, at the City of Wpg, Water Treatment Control Center on Wilkes Ave.(just west of the "cloverleaf")and had some interesting sightings,...
Hi all Manitoba birders. There is another Yahoo group available to you. The MB_birders group is for birders living in Manitoba to post messages on topics not...
I dropped off Adam Walleyn at the airport this morning but, as usually happens when i drop Adam off at the airport, we made a slight detour on the way (to...
Hello all, A Townsend's Solitaire was spotted around noon today by James Whitelaw at Munson Park (off Wellington Crescent in Wpg.). Go through the main...
Rudolf Koes
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Oct 2, 2005 7:13 pm
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A trip to Riding Mountain NP today with my wonderful wife and a good friend produced a Towsend's Solitaire (5km along Lake Audy Rd) feeding in low fruiting...
Hi all, this message may post twice (the first one i sent yesterday doesn't seem to have worked so i am trying again) Yesterday i took a drive out to Riding...
I have just posted a new bird identifcation query at http://www.manitobanature.ca/MB_birds/query.htm The photo was sent in by David Raitt. David's note...
The photo taken by David Raitt indeed shows an American Pipit. Cheers, Rudolf Koes. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
Rudolf Koes
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Oct 4, 2005 4:03 pm
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Hey Christian, Actually the first one did go through at about 7:45 last evening. But that's ok - it's a good bird. Does this mean that those uppity computers...
It looks like an immature robin to me. Gene Walz...
Gene Walz
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Oct 5, 2005 3:04 pm
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On a short drive through the carrot valley west of The Pas last evening I saw a short-eared owl. Sightings of them in this area are few and far between these...
Hello all , A single adult Bohemian Waxwing joined some robins in cleaning out the Mountain Ash in my back yard this morning . At least 4 Harris' , 2...
It looked like a fine day for a bike ride so I layered up and headed out to the monestary ruins in St. Norbert and then swung by King's Park. St. Norbert had...
This is a belated report on a Big Day effort last Saturday, October 1st. Gordon Grieef, Rudolf Koes and I set out from the city at 6:30, spent a rather wet...
a morning walk to St Vital Park produced a great look at a Winter Wren (i usually manage to find one or two in the city parks in the first week of October) and...
... two owls we saw 108 other species -- hard to believe now as I look outside at the snow!... >>> Gord Grieef just pointed out that I forgot to mention that...
I have just added a page with Winter Wren pictures at http://www.manitobanature.ca/MB_birds/misc/WinterWren.htm The images came from Christian Artuso. Frank...
_____ From: David Cunningham [mailto:dlc_ca@...] Sent: October 9, 2005 1:59 PM To: 'Manitoba Birders (MB_Birders@yahoogroups.com)' Subject: Feeder visitors...
David Cunningham
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Oct 9, 2005 7:05 pm
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Liis Veelma and i headed out to the beaches today, returning via Ok Hammock. The highlights were 1) Harlequin Duck: female/juvenile type bird seen from Sprit...
The highlight was the two to three Eastern Bluebird males perched and flying between the clump of Tamaraks and the other clump of (Poplars?)trees in the open...
A Peregrine has been perched at 200 Tuxedo all week - usually on the SW corner on the protected ledge. Jo Swartz, Winnipeg [Non-text portions of this message...
Richard Silverman
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Oct 10, 2005 5:46 pm
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Hello Peter and all As far as I know, you Rudolf and Gordon have set a new Manitoba October Big Day record at 110. Robert Parsons and I set the first reported...
OK - Technically it was really in northern Minnesota (Roseau County), but just 2.5 miles south of the South Junction border crossing. It was in the "Roseau...
Whatever happened to the "fall round-up"? I can't remember when it was that it just disappeared, but I do recall that Lew Layman, Andy Courcelles, and I used...
Gene Walz
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Oct 11, 2005 2:57 pm
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Many thanks to Liis Veelma for your month-by-month compilation of Manitoba Big Day records. I'm happy to say that we can belatedly add a number for April....
Hello, Has anyone ever seen any species of Scoter in retention ponds in the city? I observed an adult female Surf Scoter today in a retention pond just south ...
With Surf Scoter a mere 15 minutes away , I couldn't resist dropping what I was working on and giving it a try . At 5:20pm it was still on the pond mentioned...
Hello all, All three scoter species have been seen occasionally at various retention ponds in the city. As far as I can recall most reports have come from the ...
