My husband and I drove around the harbor and visited Canal Park briefly today. Didn't get either a Snowy Owl or the Gyrfalcon spotted this morning, but did find a young Peregrine Falcon feasting on a pigeon on the BendTec buildlng. I got some photos, but could only see (and not read much of) the aluminum band, not the color band.
We were only at Canal Park for a few minutes before a ship went through, but got nice looks (and a few nice photos) of one Iceland, one Glaucous, and one Ring-billed Gull in addition to the ubiquitous Herring Gulls. A pair of Buffleheads were fun to watch (I showed them to a bunch of kids who pronounced them "cool." Didn't pick out anything else among the Mallards and Common Goldeneyes. When we left, hardly any birds had returned, but the Mallards and Buffleheads were out of the shipping canal and didn't seem bothered by the ruckus. There was pretty crappy light, but I took photos, which are the most recent posted on my flickr photostream at http://www.flickr.com/photos/lauraerickson/. A handful of Pine Siskins and one lone Common Redpoll arrived in my yard yesterday, and my neighbor had two juncos today. Slim pickin's in my neighborhood otherwise. -- Laura Erickson Duluth, MN For the love, understanding, and protection of birds There is symbolic as well as actual beauty in the migration of birds. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature--the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after the winter. —Rachel Carson Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
