I arrived home early from work today (Monday), after checking e-mail and seeing Tanya Beyer's post about seeing the Tropical Kingbird on Sunday just before dusk, I was encouraged to try for it. I arrived at Murphy Hanrehan about 8 pm. Walking out to the site (marker 36), I immediately found the Kingbird hawking insects from the top of the cottonwood. It would fly out a hundred to two hundred yards catch a large insect and fly back to his perch to consume the prize. It did not appear that it was catching dragon flies, but looked like bumble bees. I was talking to a dog walker and I looked over and the bird was gone. I thought I heard its twitter, but after a while located an Eastern Kingbird twittering to the east.
Steve Weston On Quigley Lake in Eagan, MN swest...@comcast.net ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
