Just to pipe in again on this St. Paul area raptor thread, last weekend I did a bike ride through Lilydale park and saw one eagle perched along the river downriver of the yacht club, near the nest there.
This past Tues I went down by Ford Dam and didn’t see any of the falcons while there but did see an Osprey nab a Sheepshead in the channel just downstream of the lock. https://flic.kr/p/2nzfdoD Yesterday afternoon I did another bike ride through Lilydale park and coming up Ohio St / Cherokee St., along the bluff I saw 3 falcons flying, 2 juveniles interacting / locking talons in the air. The third I didn’t spot whether adult or juvenile, I was huffing and puffing up that big hill.. All the best to you all, happy birding! Brian Tennessen St. Paul On Sun, Jul 10, 2022 at 1:37 PM Jason Frank <jmfran...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'll chime in here, from The Edge of the Realm (Ortonville) > > -Eagle numbers around here seem pretty average to me. There is a nest in > Big Stone NWR, easily visible on the exit route of the auto tour through > the woods by the river, where there's a strong/healthy-looking juvenile > branching now and ready to fly. I'm still seeing multiple adults per day > soaring around. > > -Accipiter numbers appear typical. Cooper's and Sharp-Shins are a common > site in town and in the woods along Big Stone Lake. Kestrel numbers seem > typical (for the past 10 years, which is to say: fewer than there were 20 > years ago). Red-Tails are still around but seem to be roughly 1/3 less than > what I was seeing last year at this time. > > -Turkey Vultures are showing the most notable decline here. Last year, > there would be at least 40 adults who would congregate in Ortonville to > roost every evening. By late summer, they'd typically expand to around 60 > individuals. They'd usually start drifting into town around 6:00 PM. That's > about how many showed up in April, and since early May I haven't seen more > than 15 coming in to roost and/or taking off in the mornings. They were > eating a lot of roadkilled turkeys and pheasants this spring. > > On Thu, Jul 7, 2022 at 3:52 PM Tom Gilde < > 00002247eb7407f6-dmarc-requ...@lists.umn.edu> wrote: > > > Subjectively, I am not seeing the familiar eagles and osprey in SW St. > > Paul and Lilydale. I’m wondering whether anyone has, or can point me to, > > objective data about the impact of avian flu on our local raptors. I > miss > > them. > > > > Tom Gilde > > ---- > > General information and guidelines for posting: > > https://moumn.org/listservice.html > > Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html > > > > During the pandemic, the MOU encourages you to stay safe, practice social > > distancing, and continue to bird responsibly. > > > > > -- > Jason M. Frank > Founder & Vice President > Luddite Ornithologists League (LOL) > Big Stone County, Minnesota > > ---- > General information and guidelines for posting: > https://moumn.org/listservice.html > Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html > > During the pandemic, the MOU encourages you to stay safe, practice social > distancing, and continue to bird responsibly. > ---- General information and guidelines for posting: https://moumn.org/listservice.html Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html During the pandemic, the MOU encourages you to stay safe, practice social distancing, and continue to bird responsibly.
