At 8:03 this evening the spoonbill took off, first heading SE, then turning NE and flying out of sight.
It's hard to know how consequential this is. A spoonbill located in a township park at 9 PM on 13 June in OH departed at 7 AM on the 14th - but reappeared back in the township park at 9 PM that evening. So, perhaps "our" bird will exhibit similarly regular movements (though I recognize that the OH story pertains to a bird returning to a roost site, whereas tonight's events pertain to a bird leaving for a roost site). Phil Chu Department of Biology College of St. Benedict and St. John's University ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
