3 miles south of Madison MN this afternoon, at 5:43PM, along Hwy 75 (due west of the spooky dead elm swamp) a female Marsh Hawk* crossed the road in front of me, as fast and furious as any falcon, and snatched a Lesser Yellowleg from the edge of a flooded field. Never seen that before!
*It was a hawk. From a marsh. So I call it a Marsh Hawk. I will not yield. IN other news, Peeps are here: I found scattered groups of Least, Baird's, Pectoral, and Solitary Sandpipers, along with Dunlins, in flooded fields between Madison and Gary, SD. Lots more Eastern Bluebirds showing up as well. Purple Martins are back in nearby towns (Gary SD, Burr, and Canby MN) wherever boxes are found. Saw my Chipping Sparrow mother bringing nesting material to her favored spruce bough this evening, beside the deck. -- Jason M. Frank Founder and Vice President, Luddite Ornithologists League (LOL) [email protected] >From the Lovely Land of Lac qui Parle https://turnstonecreations.smugmug.com/ Sent from my invisible blue Homing Pigeon ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
