Must be the day for Mississippi Kites. I had an immature type this afternoon over the bridge separating Lake of the Isles and Cedar Lake. It was hawking dragonflies and was attacked by an Eastern Kingbird that drove it towards Lake Calhoun. I lost sight of it as it was being chased over the southwestern tree line. This was about a half hour ago 8:10PM.
Keep your eyes peeled with all these dragonflies around. Regards, Terry --- [email protected] wrote: > While working at 1530 London Road today 8/8/05 , I > observed an immature > Mississippi kite at 2:40pm flying over the road > approx 30 feet high. While > watching it fight the wind and gain altitude, it > joined another immature slighty > further west about a block up from London Road. > > Todays strong southwest winds most likely pushed > these vagrants. They were > last seen moving up the northshore. A check up at > Hawk Ridge at 6:45 revealed no > sightings, although this would be late in the day to > observe raptors. > > Notes were taken minutes later after the sighting > and will be sent into MORC. > > Frank Nicoletti > > _______________________________________________ > mou-net mailing list > [email protected] > http://cbs.umn.edu/mailman/listinfo/mou-net > Terry Brashear Hennepin County, MN http://www.naturepixels.com birdnird AT yahoo.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
