This morning I was surprised to find another Eastern Meadowlark in southwest Minnesota, this time at Talcot Lake WMA in southwest Cottonwood County. I first heard an Eastern song about 200 yards south of CR 15 on the east side of 300th St. (the border with Murray County) near a line of small trees. I then located the bird perched atop one of these trees, and as I approached it gave "zeert" calls characteristic of an Eastern Meadowlark. I was even more surprised when a second bird flew up from the ground to the base of the tree in which the first bird was still perched; as it flew up I noted the more extensively white outer tail feathers. Both birds then flew a bit further east and landed somewhere in the prairie, at which point I was able to see that the first bird also had extensively white outer tail feathers. Although the second bird never vocalized, I have to assume that this is another potentially breeding pair of Eastern Meadowlarks.
I suppose if one is patient enough, the birds might cross into nearby Murray County... Bob Dunlap -- Robert Dunlap Graduate Research Assistant Natural Resources Science and Management University of Minnesota Hodson Hall 1980 Folwell Avenue St. Paul, MN 55108 Email: [email protected] ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
