On Jan 21 at 8:00 AM my backyard was visited by a white gyrfalcon. He perched about thirty feet up in a cottonwood and surveyed the area briefly before flying north across some detention ponds toward Anderson Lakes. My wife and I climbed the berm behind our house and were able to see the bird on another deciduous perch 200 yards out. I've never seen a gyrfalcon before, but since there are no other huge all white hawks to choose from, I think I'm right. It certainly wasn't a snowy owl. Has anyone from the Anderson Lakes area of Eden Prairie had a similar sighting? I attempted to relocate the bird along Anderson Lakes Parkway, from Preserve Blvd to Hwy 169 with no success. I also drove down Prairie Lakes Parkway, south of the EP Mall where there is a good vantage point of the lake, but no gyrfalcon.
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