While ATVing with my son on the Alborn-Pengilly trail, at the first road intersection just north of Meadowlands in St. louis County I saw an unusual bird fly across the trail into the mowed fiield of grass to the west. I stopped and dismounted immediatley to see what it was. After missing my first opportunity to see it with my binoculars in the windbreak between two of the fields, I walked to see if it had landed beyond the windbreak. I found a Black Billed Magpie foraging in the fiield. I've never seen this western bird in MN before. I know they appear around Sax Zim but It was still a first for me.
Keith Carlson Roseville, MN ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
