We have twice witnessed bald eagles picking off muskrats off of our pond...a pretty cool sight.
Uwe Kausch Duluth -----Original Message----- From: Minnesota Birds [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Pamela Freeman Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2013 11:10 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [mou-net] Most Surprising Bird? A golden eagle trying to get a muskrat out of its house in the pond in our "backyard." Amazing to see fairly close up, with binoculars through our window. This was early spring, no leaves on the trees. It tried and tried, but eventually flew off without a muskrat. ________________________________ From: Al Schirmacher <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2013 12:55 PM Subject: [mou-net] Most Surprising Bird? What is your most surprising bird of the (half) year? Mine would have to be the (lifer) Chuck's-wills-widow that visited our Kansas backyard the first week we moved here from central Minnesota; then it, of course, hasn't dropped by audibly or visibly since. (Unless, of course, it was the surfeit of shorebirds that graced Princeton Sewage Ponds our last week or so in Princeton, adding new county birds not seen in the previous nine years there. Nice to have godwits and avocets dropping bye to say goodbye.) Al Schirmacher Muscotah, KS (formerly Princeton, MN & Madison, WI) ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
