Couldn't relocate the "white" RED-RAILED HAWK I saw Friday along Cty Rd 60 in Eden Prairie (a little south of 62); however, going back to the area yesterday my wife and I found a NORTHERN SHRIKE hunting on the grounds of the nearby Forest Hills Park -- surely the same shrike I counted for the CBC on 12/15 at the exact same spot.
Going back to the area today (Sunday) we failed to find the albino Red-tailed (or "big-time" leucistic, if you like), but we did find an adult RED-SHOULDERED HAWK perched on the front property of the nearby Liberty Baptist Church on 60 (Baker Rd). We watched this hawk -- beautifully lit in late afternoon sun -- successfully hunt for close to half an hour. Looks like those winter-time Red-shouldereds -- as the Schirmachers will attest from Sherburne yesterday -- are slowly etching their way north in Minnesota. This beautiful bird made our day -- especially considering that we went to see a really tedious, overwrought and unpleasant movie just after our pleasant bird-watching experience. Please, save your money, "There Will Be Blood" has absolutely no redeeming value. And here I could have been reading a good book tonight. BTW: Thanks to others, I now know that the "white" RED-TAILED-HAWK has been living in Eden Prairie for several years; in fact at least one person, Stan Tekiela, has photos of it, perched and in flight. So you know. Hale to John J, Don Darnell Eden Prairie/Hennepin Cty. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://moumn.org/pipermail/mou-net_moumn.org/attachments/20080127/f95a3502/attachment.html
