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A golden eagle trying to get a muskrat out of its house in the pond in our
backyard.
Amazing to see fairly close up, with binoculars through our window. This was
early spring, no leaves on the trees.
It tried and tried, but eventually flew off without
Ours would have to be the American Woodcock in our backyard - doing his
little dance.
Sid Stivland
Plymouth, MN
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It may have been the snowy owl, not so surprising given that this was at
the Minneapolis/St. Paul Airport in a season when there were many reports
from along the runways of snowy owls. My plane was at the top of a runway
waiting for the signal to go, and there sat the dingy snowy owl on a cell
One summer about 10 years ago when I was living in Kalamazoo, MI there was a
period of about a week where there were 2 Mississippi Kites (one juvenile and
one adult) and 1 Swallow-tailed Kite hanging out at an Apple Orchard. It was
amazing seeing the Swallow-tailed Kite flying above our heads
foot in front of
the other.
-- M. C. Richards
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Ours would have to be the American Woodcock in our backyard
, MN
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What is your most surprising bird of the (half) year?
Mine would have to be the (lifer) Chuck's-wills-widow that visited our
Kansas
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What is your most surprising bird of the (half) year?
Mine would have to be the (lifer) Chuck's-wills-widow that visited our
Kansas backyard the first week we moved here from central Minnesota; then
it, of course, hasn't dropped by audibly
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The Wood Thrush singing in our woods, way after migration was over, so we
know they are here for the summer!
Holly Peirson
SE Anoka Co
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What is your most surprising bird of the (half) year?
Mine would have to be the (lifer) Chuck's-wills-widow that visited our Kansas
backyard
What is your most surprising bird of the (half) year?
Mine would have to be the (lifer) Chuck's-wills-widow that visited our Kansas
backyard the first week we moved here from central Minnesota; then it, of
course, hasn't dropped by audibly or visibly since.
(Unless, of course, it was the
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What is your most surprising bird of the (half) year?
Mine would have to be the (lifer) Chuck's-wills-widow that visited our Kansas
backyard
at the right time.
Supports my birding motto: expect the unexpected.
Mike Engh
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A tiny (inch or so) broken egg shell, blue, probably blown from the nest,
with
an embryo inside. Seeing the tiny perfectly shaped head including a
miniscule eye dot
and very wee bill was a first for me. I still feel bad for the mom who worked
hard to
get everything to that point. We've
Most surprising was the Red Shouldered hawk in my 'backyard' in Prior Lake.
Sat in a low tree, then caught a mole and ate it before moving on
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