Surprisingly the Grey Phase Gyrfalcon is still on its winter stamping
grounds. I got too short a look at the Gyr on Dakota 42 just as it goes East
from
MN55 around the first bend. There is a farm there with a large shed facing the
road and the Gyrfalcon came over the field and went up into one of the tall
trees behind the shed. It stayed briefly, rose up over the trees and went down
into the river valley past the treeline.
There were (approx.) 230 Tundra swans on the river below Schaar's Bluff.
John Ellis, St. Paul
