The Gyrfalcon was seen at 4:30PM at the field on the south side of 180th St. It was perched on the irrigation structure that runs north - south, on the crossbar that runs east - west. At 4:36 PM it flew west over and across US 52, then turned a bit to the northwest before I lost sight of the bird.
Chris Benson Rochester, MN ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dedrick Benz" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]>; <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2007 5:03 PM Subject: [mou] Metro birding today > Chris O'Byrne and I were able to relocate the following goodies on Thursday: > > MTN. BLUEBIRD - as reported previously along the N. side of 175th St., but > unaccompanied by waxwings. > > GYRFALCON - Along Dakota Cty Rd. 42, 3 telephone poles east of Jacob Ave. > > We did not see any gulls at Prescott, nor were we able to pick out a > Barrow's Goldeneye from Prescott's Freedom Park, tho there huge numbers of > Goldeneye present, and we didn't give it a lot of time. Many of the birds > were distant. We also didn't see any gulls at Black Dog in the early > afternoon. We tooled around 14 and 42 in Wabasha County from about 3 to 4 > PM, but were not able to refind the Snowy Owl. > > Dedrick Benz > Winona, MN > > _________________________________________________________________ > Check out all that glitters with the MSN Entertainment Guide to the Academy > Awards® http://movies.msn.com/movies/oscars2007/?icid=ncoscartagline2 > > _______________________________________________ > mou-net mailing list > [email protected] > http://cbs.umn.edu/mailman/listinfo/mou-net >
