A little more information about this sighting we are sure will be helpful to many. We spent several hours walking over 6 miles in the ditches along the roads. Not on the bike path or on the shoulder of the road but both of us actually down in the ditches. When we flushed this bird we were not more than 8 feet from it and only got a glimpse of it before it flew up and over the cliff wall, which we climbed on top of without success. From mile marker 48 we walked all the way into Beaver Bay and back and when we found it were just starting to work from 48 the other way.
The location was about 300 yards south or west of the 48 mile marker on the inland side of the road, next to a very tall cliff wall. This we gather was near where it was last seen yesterday. But at least two parties of folks had walked by this area before we did today without flushing it. Although we think possibly each time it was only one person in that area at once. If several of you are there it would make sense to walk down the ditches together to cover them better. After it flushed we lost track of it and were unable to refind it although we only looked for a little more than an hour more. Our look was not the best. If we had not known there was a ground dove in the area we would have been very confused by seeing this small dove fly up and away. This one for us is going down as wanting a much better view in the future. A future we hope is not as far as many much better birders have waited to see one here. Dennis and Barbara Martin [email protected] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kim R Eckert" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, October 18, 2004 1:07 PM Subject: [mou] Com Grond-Dove update > I just received a message at 1 pm Monday that Denny & Barb Martin just > relocated the Com Ground-Dove along MN Hwy 61 in Lake Co. I don't know > the location, but presumably it is still near mile marker 48, which is > 3 mi SW of Beaver Bay. - Kim Eckert > > _______________________________________________ > mou-net mailing list > [email protected] > http://cbs.umn.edu/mailman/listinfo/mou-net
