My husband and I had a jolly time this morning watching the eider in the shipping canal. There was a lot of ice in the canal (oddly, none at all along shore there--that's the funny wind effect). The funnest part of it was that there were lots and lots of tourists there, and they got a kick out of learning about the "odd duck" and just how rare it is in Minnesota.
I posted a whole bunch of photos of it on my flickr photostream--they're all the most recent shots, so the first you'd see at https://www.flickr.com/photos/lauraerickson/ On Thu, Jan 1, 2015 at 7:32 PM, Jesse Ellis <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello All- > > A great photo of the Duluth Common Eider associating with a wild-type and a > domestic mallard was posted to the Minnesota Birding facebook page > yesterday. Seen by Paula Aschim around 11am in the shipping canal. > > Thus, the bird is still around, and probably enjoying the cold... did > anyone see it today? > > Jesse Ellis > Saint Paul, MN > > -- > Jesse Ellis, Ph. D. > > ---- > Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net > Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html > -- Laura Erickson Duluth, MN For the love, understanding, and protection of birds There is symbolic as well as actual beauty in the migration of birds. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature--the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after the winter. —Rachel Carson Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
