Grey Cloud Dunes SNA quiet: one mature bald eagle overhead, red-bellied woodpecker, downy woodpecker, chickadee, nuthatch, blue jay, crows
quick pit stop at Schaar's Bluff: about 2 dozen snow buntings along the outer drive, one red-tail hawk catching a mouse 170th St.: gyrfalcon show--spotted her at 2:45 on the ground by the east irrigation equipment, eating; thankfully, Rob had been able to devise a "quick fix" for our telescope problem so we were able to get close-ups of her beautiful markings and colors as she preened--she then alternated between the ground and the south irrigation equipment, making forays through the flock, but grabbing nothing--at one point, she landed in a tree by the farmhouse, giving good looks--she was only upstaged once, by the bald eagle making a pass through the flocks Linda Whyte
