(Posted by Jason Frank <[email protected]> via moumn.org) This morning around 11:00 along Hwy 67 one mile west of Hwy 75 in Yellow Medicine County, I saw my FOY Marsh Hawk. This is 1 mile south of the Lac qui Parle Co line.
Driving through Meeker County along Hwy 7, I saw a flock of 6 Trumpeter Swans heading northwest, between Lake Lillian and Cosmos, around Noon today. There have been a pair present throughout the spring and summer months in recent years between Thompson Lake WMA on the west end of Hutch and a slough in a cornfield on the east end of Cosmos. Ron Erpelding told me this evening that Garrett Wee has located a Long-Eared Owl in the woods around Miedd Lake in eastern Yellow Medicine County. I have reason to believe there have been at least two Evening Grosbeaks at the Lac qui Parle SP visitor center this winter; the bird I saw in January was definitely male, striking gold plumage with white and black wings, while the bird seen recently has been identified as female. American Robins appeared en masse in Lac qui Parle/Yellow Medicine towns today. Driving between Gary SD and Hutchinson MN toady, I counted 44 Bald Eagles, 11 Red Tailed Hawks, and 9 Kestrels, 38 Canada Geese in flight, and a big cluster (est. 100) on the Minnesota River in Montevideo. Jason Frank ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
