http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MOB-Montana/ Montana's Outdoor Birding Groupinsect Tue, 09 Feb 2010 22:53:26 GMT allison_fwp http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MOB-Montana/message/7727 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MOB-Montana/message/7727 Hi Mobsters, I am a biologist with Fish, Wildlife & Parks, and am hoping to get some bird surveys done this spring in areas where FWP is doing habitat work Mon, 08 Feb 2010 21:53:32 GMT Chuck Carlson http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MOB-Montana/message/7726 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MOB-Montana/message/7726 Mobsters I just received the latest issue of Cornell Laboratory's "Living Bird". There's a great article in it on the Manning Lake Wetlands Tribal Wildlife Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:25:08 GMT Barb Jaquith http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MOB-Montana/message/7725 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MOB-Montana/message/7725 Kristi and Mob Kristi, I would like to hear more about the location of the Red Crossbill nest that Jeff wrote about.....tree species, location in the tree, Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:29:09 GMT Michael Schwitters http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MOB-Montana/message/7724 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MOB-Montana/message/7724 Bob and All MOBsters, I can only echo Bob's admonition to "get out there and find something good" as the next Great Backyard Bird Count (GBBC) is about to Mon, 08 Feb 2010 06:09:27 GMT Jeff Marks http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MOB-Montana/message/7723 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MOB-Montana/message/7723 Barb, It's certainly possible, and perhaps likely, that crossbills raise more than one brood a year in Montana, especially in years with good cone crops. I Mon, 08 Feb 2010 04:24:34 GMT Bob Danley http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MOB-Montana/message/7722 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MOB-Montana/message/7722 Mobiforms: Hello. I finally bought the Peter Dunne book "The Art of Pishing" (published in 2006) to remind, review, polish and update my "pishing" field Mon, 08 Feb 2010 02:02:15 GMT Barb Jaquith http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MOB-Montana/message/7721 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MOB-Montana/message/7721 Jeff and Mobsters RE: Red Crossbill Nesting. Do you think that we have two broods per year here in The Rockies? It seems that when they arrive early Spring to Sun, 07 Feb 2010 02:16:24 GMT garyswant http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MOB-Montana/message/7719 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MOB-Montana/message/7719 Birders, Fresh snow on the ground this morning so I took a trip to the south valley to see what the storm might have brought in. There was nothing new, but I Sat, 06 Feb 2010 19:01:42 GMT http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MOB-Montana/message/7718 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MOB-Montana/message/7718 The following MOB-Montana poll is now closed. Here are the final results: POLL QUESTION: The first 'Photo of the month' poll for 2010 is now open for voting. Sat, 06 Feb 2010 17:52:01 GMT Kristi DuBois http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MOB-Montana/message/7717 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MOB-Montana/message/7717 I observed a pair of bald eagles standing on their nest along the Clark Fork River last Monday. They seem to be gettting ready for nesting season too. Some of Sat, 06 Feb 2010 16:45:43 GMT Bob Martinka http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MOB-Montana/message/7716 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MOB-Montana/message/7716 I just placed an image in my Photo folder - Bob's Bird Images - of a banded bald eagle that was located about 1 mile east of Cascade last Wednesday. If you go Sat, 06 Feb 2010 16:40:01 GMT Hendricks, Paul http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MOB-Montana/message/7715 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MOB-Montana/message/7715 A pair of Black-billed Magpies has begun construction of a new nest in a neighbors larch here in Missoula near the base of Mt. Jumbo. I noticed them messing Sat, 06 Feb 2010 06:37:05 GMT Daniel http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MOB-Montana/message/7714 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MOB-Montana/message/7714 MOB-sters: I uploaded three shots from the dump. The Thayer's shot is good for showing the differences in the folded primaries (from the surrounding Herring Fri, 05 Feb 2010 21:50:25 GMT Daniel http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MOB-Montana/message/7713 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MOB-Montana/message/7713 MOB-sters: After more than a month of nothing but 2 species of gulls at the Flathead Landfill north of Kalispell, a lunchtime check today yielded (slightly) Thu, 04 Feb 2010 21:32:21 GMT tailfeathers http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MOB-Montana/message/7712 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MOB-Montana/message/7712 I was 15 miles north of Pompeys Pillar yesterday and discovered several robins singing and carrying on like it was the first of April...Pretty heavy snow cover