gyrfalcon, a bit like clockwork: on 170th, south field, by 3:30--may have been ground-feeding first, then suddenly appeared on the irrigation equipment--made a couple of tentative flying feints at a duck, but quickly returned to perch
sideshows: one mature bald eagle overhead one Cooper's hawk, which flew close over 170th and darted into an open shed in the farmyard north of the road in apparent pursuit of a sparrow, -- it disappeared behind a circular steel corn crib, presumably to dine one kestrel, on a wire over Hwy 52, just north of the refinery red(road?)tail hawks perched at the roadside on 52: three-- one on a hwy. sign, eating something large draped over the sign one at the edge of the Pine Bend SNA one near the open settling ponds a few turkeys among the geese lounging at the grain-related rail terminal on Pine Bend Trail one probable shrike at the entrance to the archery range in Spring Lake Park Linda Whyte
