(Posted by Jason Frank <jmfran...@gmail.com> via moumn.org) This evening at 8:05 PM, a Whip-Poor-Will swooped in front of my truck as I was cruising the MN/SD border road, aka Laura Street, at its intersection with 110th St N (aka LqP CR 50) just about a mile north of Gary, SD. This would be just north of the point where Monighan Creek crosses Laura Street, a pasture with captive buffalo and a massive fallen cottonwood.
Earlier in the afternoon about 4:00, I spotted a kettle of 21 Broad-Winged Hawks and 4 Swainson's Hawks circling over the tiny town of Burr, which is NW of Canby at the intersection of 14 and E3. The Ferruginous Hawk that's been lurking around Lake Francis just over the SD border is still around. Lots of juvenile Red-Tails remain in the area, many of them a lot darker than we usually see out here. Robins and Cedar Waxwings are busy gleaning the last of the elderberries. Never in my life have I seen such a crop of wild sunflowers in Lac qui Parle and Yellow Medicine Counties; Painted Lady Butterflies are easily exceeding 1,000+ per mile on the right dirt roads. Jason Frank Lac qui Parle ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
