Rock Wren -- Friday, Sept. 19, 1:00 p.m. Inspiration Peak, Otter Tail County
At the top of Inspiration Peak today, while lunching and watching for raptors, we saw a "wren-like" bird land on top of a fence post about 50 feet away. The size and light color of the bird caught our attention, it was too big (about 5 1/2 inches) and incorrectly colored for the expected wren species. The bird was very cooperative and stayed there for at least five minutes -- we were able to observe it with binoculars, and took photos from that distance. Then, Sandy moved closer to the bird with digital camera in hand taking photos along the way, she got within 10 feet of the bird to get the final couple photos. Exciting!!! Sandy's non-birding brother even pretended to be thrilled. ;-) The photos were taken on someone else's camera, so we will have to wait until Monday to get them and post them to the MOU site along with observation details/documentation. A beautiful day to be up on Inspiration Peak -- saw lots of turkey vultures, some Bald Eagles, some smaller raptors too far out to ID, and some tourists from Arizona. Fall colors are just beginning to appear, so worth a trip up there. Sandy and Dan Thimgan -- Thimgans Battle Lake MN Otter Tail County -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://moumn.org/pipermail/mou-net_moumn.org/attachments/20080919/33750bf9/attachment.html
