Today after work I headed down to black dog lake to see what interesting things I could find to photograph. On the river I found a few hooded mergansers and one very calm common merganser. At the south channel I heard, but did not see the belted kingfisher that resides there, I photographed him for a while this past weekend.
After Black Dog I headed up to the Lakeville great horned owl nest. As I parked across the street it looked like the owl was out of the nest more then usual but when I crossed the street to get a better angle I found that what I had seen was the male, the first time that I have spotted him this year, as he took off from the nest. He flew into the nearby woods where I was able to photograph him. I decided to leave at around 4:30 so that he could get to his hunting. On my way home I spotted a red shouldered hawk on a small pine near a large church on 3 in Eagan. By the time that I turned around and pulled into the church parking lot he had flown to a different branch where I was able to get a couple more nice pics. I am planning to run up to Sax Zim again tomorrow so hopefully I will get some more good pics this weekend. Thanks, Jeff Fischer http://ecobirder.blogspot.com/ ---- Join or Leave mou-net:http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives:http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
