Friday 12/28 This morning we had a Northern Flicker on the feeder. While it was yellow-shafted (yellow wing lining and under-tail), the red crescent on the nape was quite small, evidence that there was probably some red-shafted ancestry.
Observed two Red-tailed Hawks on the communication tower on the north side of I-494 just west of the H-55 bridge and the I-35e junction in Mendota Heights. I would not have given these birds a second look, except the size difference between the pair was quite noticible. A Peregrine Falcon was watching pigeons from atop the northern most grain elevator along Hiawatha (about 33rd Street) in Minneapolis. Steve Weston on Quiggley Lake in Eagan, MN [email protected]
