Kind of a double header: driving to the wedding of my sister-in-law in Maple Grove with my mother and young daughter, I noticed something odd flying parallel to our road. Trying to drive and look (don't tell my wife!), it looked like two birds flying side by side. As we continued, the bird(s) gradually were getting closer and something still wasn't quite right. As I drew up to a stop sign, a peregrine falcon landed on the top of a telephone pole at the intersection, with a drake Bufflehead in its talons. The Bufflehead was still looking up at the falcon as defiantly as it could; it had been still trying to fly as the falcon landed which is why it looked so odd. Reality struck when my mother commented that she had never seen a bird with such brilliant red on its chest. I had to tell her it isn't usually red.... Tough way to see my first Bufflehead.
The standoff was still in progress when I had to head to the wedding. Still the best pair of birds through the sun roof! Mark LaRose ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
