Its amazing how much this bird moves around. We had looked for the gyr since 2:30 or so without success and finally about 4:00 PM we saw geese and ducks moving out of the river and heading south to feed. We decided to follow then and see if the gyr showed up. Just south of Vermillion they came down in fields east and west of Fischer Ave. This is 6 miles south of the golf course. To the east of Fischer and just north of 200th the Gyr came in flying around the whole area seemingly casing out the terrain. This was about 4:50. After a while it landed on a irrigation rig not far from us in very neat scope view for some 15 minutes or so. It then appeared to look over the dinner menu before flying into the mallards on the ground at a very high rate of speed. It went behind a small hill before hitting the mallard it was right behind so we do not know if it was successful.
Of interest the flocks of waterfowl also had Snow Goose and a dimunitive Ross's Goose in with the mallards and Canada Geese. Dennis and Barbara Martin dbmar...@skypoint.com