Yesterday while hiking the Vermilion Gorge Trail at Crane Lake in northern St Louis County, I saw an immature GRAY JAY. The bird was an overall slate gray color. It hadn't been out of the nest too long as it had the pink gape of a young bird. It had no problem flying from branch to branch. It was making begging calls and at one point sat with its mouth open waiting to be fed. I watched with my binoculars from about 20 feet away.
The ice just completely cleared from Crane Lake on Wednesday, but there is probably still ice on the bigger lakes just up north in Voyageurs National Park. I saw my last Redpoll on Monday, May 5th - they were quickly replaced by Purple Finches and Chipping Sparrows the next day. Dee Kuder Crane Lake -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://moumn.org/pipermail/mou-net_moumn.org/attachments/20080508/32d5373e/attachment.html
