Saturday afternoon, I saw a mature Bald Eagle carrying nesting material (a sizable stick) towards the area where the nest near the 58 club is/was located. I was traveling eastbound on crosstown just east of Cedar Ave and the eagle was east of my position flying WNW so I am assuming that is where it was headed.
Jim Ryan Saint Paul On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 9:29 PM, linda whyte <[email protected]> wrote: > For anyone interested in breeding birds, a pair of eagles was doing > courtship maneuvers just over and around black Dog lake this > afternoon. I believe it may be the pair that uses the nest near the > power plant that is visible from the observation platform at Old Cedar > Ave. When viewed later from Black Dog Road, the nest appeared to have > one "mature" head just showing above its rim. > > Also present: a shrike at the west outlet, a pair of trumpeters and > some gadwall on the west end of the lake; coots among the mallards, > Canadas, and c. mergansers by the plant; and hooded as well as common > mergansers on the river by the plant, along with a red-tailed hawk. > Chet Myers mentioned a (lesser) scaup on the river, by the east > outlet, though we missed that. However, we did find a brown creeper > just east of the parking area over in Black Dog Park, not to mention > the usual wb nuthatches, chickadees, and downies. > > Linda Whyte, with Jed Askari and Katie Burns > > ---- > Join or Leave mou-net:http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net > Archives:http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html > -- Sincerely, Jim Ryan 651-308-0234 business cell -- Your life is what your thoughts make it. - Marcus Aurelius http://naturalobservations.blogspot.com/ -- ---- Join or Leave mou-net:http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives:http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
