This afternoon there was a bit of a western feel to Swede Forest SNA in eastern Yellow Medicine County. There was a western kingbird hunting along the fence across the road. Two lark sparrows flushed out of the parking area. Lastly, there was a bird I will leave unidentified in the interior of the SNA.
The unidentified bird was powder blue. I did not see it quite well enough that I would be comfortable making an ID, but I will infer one. Others that saw it earlier and better originally thought it was a bluebird, then thought it was a indigo bunting because the blue continued onto the belly. It was frequenting an opening. It looked uniformly powder blue, it was more slender than an eastern bluebird, and I have no doubt that had I seen that bird in central South Dakota I would have had no doubt is was a male Mountain Bluebird. I cannot think of anything else it could have been and everything I could see fit. Brad Bolduan Windom ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
