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I'd hesitated about posting this, but the recent post about a Northern Harrier
convinced me that at least one other birder might be interested.
My wife and I drove down Saturday afternoon to Red Wing from Minneapolis. We
saw the gyrfalcon on the utility pole along side U.S. 61 in Dakota County. We
watched it fly leisurely across the field toward the east and perch on the
large irrigation machine. Just south of the gryfalcon's utility poll we saw an
American Kestrel sitting on a fence on the west side of the highway. But a
bigger thrill than the kestrel was the sighting of a Northern Harrier coursing
northbound over a field.
Sunday we spent hopping from site to site: Colvill Park in Red Wing; several
pullouts beside Lake Pepin, and the eagle platform in Wabasha. We saw nearly 2
dozen eagles at Colvill Park in Red Wing, along with scores of ring-billed
gulls and a few herring gulls, including what was described as a first-year
herring gull. It was pretty cool to see the gulls catch the smaller shad, and
to see the eagles pull out the larger ones. Some of the volunteers had scopes
trained on the nest across from the park.
Farther downstream at one of the pullouts on Lake Pepin, we counted more than
300 scaups.
At Wabasha, there were lots of volunteers with scopes and binoculars, some of
which were trained on an occupied next across the river. We headed for home
via the Wisconsin side of the river and spotted another occupied nest. Eagle
total for the day? 200+
What a great weekend!
Rob Daves, Minneapolis
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<DIV>I'd hesitated about posting this, but the recent post about a Northern
Harrier convinced me that at least one other birder might be interested.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV> <DIV>My wife and I drove down Saturday afternoon to Red Wing
from Minneapolis. We saw the gyrfalcon on the utility pole along side
U.S. 61 in Dakota County. We watched it fly leisurely across the field
toward the east and perch on the large irrigation machine. Just south of
the gryfalcon's utility poll we saw an American Kestrel sitting on a fence on
the west side of the highway. But a bigger thrill than the kestrel was
the sighting of a Northern Harrier coursing northbound over a field.
</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Sunday we spent hopping from site to
site: Colvill Park in Red Wing; several pullouts beside Lake Pepin,
and the eagle platform in Wabasha. We saw nearly 2 dozen eagles
at Colvill Park in Red Wing, along with scores of ring-billed gulls a
nd a
few herring gulls, including what was described as a first-year herring
gull. It was pretty cool to see the gulls catch the smaller
shad, and to see the eagles pull out the larger ones. Some of
the volunteers had scopes trained on the nest across from the park.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Farther downstream at one of the pullouts on Lake
Pepin, we counted more than 300 scaups.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>At
Wabasha, there were lots of volunteers with scopes and binoculars, some of
which were trained on an occupied next across the river. We
headed for home via the Wisconsin side of the river and spotted another
occupied nest. Eagle total for the day? 200+</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV> <DIV>What a great weekend! </DIV> <DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Rob Daves, Minneapolis </DIV> <DIV> </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV><p>
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