Thanks for posting, Jonathan! While I've seen Black Terns before, I'd missed them this year. Your post helped me decide where to take my exercise walk with the little time I had, and it paid off. The bird was still hunting in the same spot this afternoon, and gave the closest looks and the best chance I've ever had to watch it hunt. It was mesmerizing--- its contact with water was detectable only from the delicate concentric ripples it produced. Linda Whyte On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 12:49 PM, Jonathon Jongsma <jonat...@quotidian.org> wrote: > (Not sure how interesting this is to others, but since I'd never seen > one before, I thought there may be some others interested as well) > > Sunday afternoon I took a walk around the bass ponds at MN valley NWR > and saw a single black tern mixed in with a large flock of swallows > skimming over the water. The tern was fishing over long meadow lake > right where there is a clearing that overlooks a water inlet from the > bass pond. Gorgeous bird. > > Other birds observed in the area included a pair of Yellow-throated > Vireos, a Belted Kingfisher, Indigo Bunting, a couple Eastern Kingbirds, > and the trio of the usual warblers (Common Yellowthroat, Yellow, and > American Redstart) > > ---- > Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net > Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html >
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