About a week ago my neighbors were eating lunch at W A Frost in St. Paul, when they noticed a bird flying in the restuarant. It settled down on a large picture frame on the wall and they realized they were looking at a Saw Whet Owl. They convinced the managers to call wildlife rescue people, who came in and easily captured the docile bird. I haven't heard anything about how the owl fared. It is pretty unusual to find a Saw Whet in the metro area in the summer.
A couple of days I accidentally dislodged a Wood Duck hen from one of our boxes. She was on 11 eggs. Hopefully we will see the brood on the lake. Today I found a hawk siting sentinel on a lamp post along the interstate in downtown St. Paul. But, I could see it was not the expected Red-tail, but a lanky Cooper's. Later crossing the Washington Avenue bridge I swerved to avoid hitting something in the road. Looking back I realized that I just ran over a suicidal Pigeon calmly walking the road. Steve Weston On Quigley Lake in Eagan, MN [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
