I just wanted to report on raptor migration through the M Hey birders, I just wanted to report on raptor migration through the Mankato area. Yesterday was our best day of the fall so far.
Turkey Vulture--2 Bald Eagle--4 Sharp-shinned Hawk--3 Cooper's Hawk--1 Red-tailed Hawk--8 Broad-winged Hawk--6 Swainson's Hawk--1 juv Peregrine Falcon--1 Merlin--2 American Kestrel--5 American White Pelican--225, 5 swallows, Common Nighthawk, Purple Finch, Red-breasted Nuthatch Year total: 130 We also had 3 unidentified birds. Two of which have the following description (they were circling together)--definite Buteo, very pale beneath with white tail, dark near the feet, white underwing (translucent--light just seemed to shine through) with distinct black commas but no patagial marks or mottling on wing linings. Wing tips were dark, but not black like on a Broad-winged Hawk--one of the students who saw these birds said they appeared brownish. The breast and belly were unmarked as well. Wing shape seemed very much like a Red-tailed Hawk's. Feel free to weigh in. Chad Heins Mankato, MN "But ask the animals and they will teach you, or the birds of the air, and they will tell you; Which of all these does not know that the hand of the Lord has done this?" --Job 12:7, 9 ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
