9:30am - 1:30pm Freedom Park overlook with Bruce Fall Very slow migration until about 11:30am, at which time south winds picked up. Most of the white-fronts were seen in the last 1.5 hours. Overall, non-eagle raptor migration has been surprisingly poor the past 3 days. All seen in Minnesota airspace except Merlin. Highlights from my count included:
Cackling Geese - 32 White-fronted Geese - 1,016 (in about 20 groups) Snow Geese - 20 Tundra Swan - 15 Bald Eagle - 116 Red-shouldered Hawk - 3 Sharp-shinned Hawk - 3 Red-tailed Hawk - 13 Merlin - 1 Sandhill Crane - 8 Many Eastern Bluebirds, gulls and blackbirds/grackles migrating as well. Jim Mattsson Eagan ---- Join or Leave mou-net:http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives:http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
