Today on my day off, I visited Hawk Ridge from 11:00am through mid-afternoon. We had some Rough-legged Hawks, Bald Eagles, and Northern Goshawk moving through: ) Red-tailed Hawks came through today, as did smaller numbers of Sharp-shinned Hawks. It sure was cool to feel and see the concentrations of periodic north winds blowing rain and sleet up at the ridge. These concentrations of winds came through like 'waves' in the sky. Pretty darn cool.
While hanging out with friends tonight, they told me a dark morph Rough-legged Hawk was banded and shown at the ridge (after I left) as well as an adult Northern Goshawk. Talk about beautiful raptors to the max!! Tomorrow could be an even better day based on the strong northwest winds! I'll check out MN Point tomorrow before work, and see if this brief cold front brings some fun stuff overnight... However before Hawk Ridge, I birded Wisconsin Point from sunrise until leaving for the ridge at 10:30. Highlights from Wisconsin Point this morning include: Red-throated Loon (1) Black Scoter (1) Bonaparte's Gulls (flock of 61 birds!!!) SANDERLING Greater Yellowlegs Good birding, Erik Bruhnke Duluth, MN birdfedr at gmail.com www.pbase.com/birdfedr -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://moumn.org/pipermail/mou-net_moumn.org/attachments/20081026/30082489/attachment.html
