I just spent 45 minutes watching a beautiful Red-shouldered Hawk in the back yard, mostly perched, but it gave me great views of the colorful wings as it flew a couple times. It took it about 5 min after I first saw it to get a vole, and half that time to polish it off. Then it just sat and looked around. Small birds were at all the feeders and ignoring it. After about 15 min, one squirrel came out and then two more. I kept mentally urging it to go for the entrée, but, unfortunately, it must have been in the small-plates mode. We saw one last winter for the first time in over 30 years here. Hope it hangs around. Would be nice to see it in the summer in the front yard dining on the pocket gopher messing up the bergamot/spiderwort patch by the driveway.
Erika Sitz Ramsey, north Anoka County ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
