WARROAD, Minn. (AP) - It might have seemed like the birds were fighting back
against a Duluth, Minn., hunter on a recent trip to far northern Minnesota.
Dan Erickson was walking back to his blind with a Canada goose slung over his
shoulder when he was hit from behind and driven to his knees. A hungry
peregrine falcon "came down and smacked him," hunting partner Bill Lord said.
Erickson dropped the goose and pointed his gun at the hovering falcon when
Lord's 12-year-old son, Nate, noticed a bell on the falcon's back. He also
noticed a piece of leather on the bird's foot.
It turned out it was a pet falcon that had escaped from its owner in Canada. So
the group let the falcon feed on a pile of dead geese and eventually captured
it with an empty packsack.
An official from the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources helped them
return the bird to the Winnipeg falconer later that day.
"We just wanted the bird to get where it was supposed to go," Lord said
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Today at mid-morning approximately 150 BRANT GEESE were sighted along the
shore here in Kincardine just north of the harbour piers. They were amoungst
a large number of Canada Geese and Gulls. Both immature and adult Brant
formed this large flock which are not common for this area.
Depending on their length of stay, they can be seen along the shore by
driving west from intersection of highway 21 & 9 on Broadway Street to the
lake. They have have been seen along the shore from the pier to Kingsway St.
Ralph Knowles
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