Quick trip to Pope County after Christmas. The bird activity was pretty subdued; too much Christmas celebration, perhaps.
The Common Redpolls were out in force – one larger flock on Thursday between Lowry and Starbuck contained 75+ birds attacking seed pods along the road. Two smaller flocks of 25 or so birds farther down the road. Several others reported Redpolls at their feeders. There was a pair of Bald Eagles on a carcass across the road from my farm – maybe 75 yards out in the field. One Barred Owl hunting near Barsness Park in Glenwood. A flock of 30 or more American Robins on crabapple trees in Barsness Park. Otherwise not much beyond Crows, Chickadees, and Woodpeckers. Sid Stivland Plymouth, MN (and Pope County) ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
