If you are birding the North Shore near Grand Marais, specifically Good Harbor Bay for loons and ducks, make certain you stop at the Cut Face Creek highway wayside. This wayside received a facelift this summer and fall. A carpet of grass seed embedded in straw was recently laid down, and boy on boy do the Snow Buntings and Horned Larks know that fact. Snow Buntings were much more numerous than Horned Larks. Additionally it is amazing how quickly every single bird disappeared when a Merlin came hunting.
As long as the migration is underway for these two kinds of birds, this will be a great place to see them and get photos. The wayside is now one big bird feeder. ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
