On a field trip over to Finland, MN via back roads I was scaring up ever bigger flocks from the road shoulders or lightly-traveled pavement. I did not expect them quite so early. Some individuals swept so close to the windshield I'd start to brake to spare them but they'd sweep to the side. They are a great favorite bird, summer's fallout from the tundras where few of us ever get to go.
One perched hawk eluded my viewing when I did a U-turn on Hwy. 16 near the Lake and St. Louis County line to try focusing on him--long bodied, pale on the breast and undersurface of the long tail. There seemed to be a faint white eyebrow. He swept down into the swamp trees as I rolled on the opposite shoulder. I was hoping it was a goshawk, having never seen one perching, but guess it may have been a harrier since one of those had been still hunting a hay meadow in Meadowlands township in late morning or noon. *Tanya Beyer* http://www.epiphaniesafield.com/home-page.html ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
