A month or so ago, I glimpsed, from a distance, a striking, black bird with a white streak in its wings at Crosby Farm Regional Park in St. Paul. It reminded me of a magpie, but knowing that was impossible, I figured it was one of the park's pileated woodpeckers. Later, during that same outing, I noticed a crow, flying with another, that appeared to have a symmetrical--or nearly symmetrical--white streak in each of its wings. I wasn't confident in what I saw, though. The crows were flying high and it was a very sunny day, so I thought the white I was seeing in the wings might have been the light playing tricks on me.
Today, I saw this "white-winged" crow fly from the trail bordering Crosby into my neighborhood (the "Shepard Park" neighborhood -- near Madison St and Stewart Ave). I had my dog, rather than my camera, with me, so I didn't have a chance to get any photographs. It appeared to have a white feather on each of its wings. Though not an uncommon or rare bird, the crow is striking and, for a photographer, might be worth the effort of tracking down. - Jared Del Rosso, St. Paul, MN -- JDR ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
