Figures--shorebirds pour in, after their fans depart!😀 Thanks for a great day, Jason! Linda Whyte On Wed, May 2, 2018, 8:18 PM Jason Frank <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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 > ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
