[mou] Frigatebird at Spirit Lake, IA

[P Hertzel]

The Spirit Lake Frigatebird seems to have spent the morning at the 
north end of Spirit Lake, and the afternoon at the south end. By late 
afternoon, it had worked its way south onto East Okoboji Lake, which 
sits adjacent to Spirit Lake on the south side.  A small group of 
birders watched it there until early evening, when it reversed its 
southward movement and returned north to Spirit Lake. It revisited 
the extreme north end, but failed to cross the state line into 
Minnesota before reversing its direction again very near the grade. 
At dusk, it was still at the lake, and perhaps will roost somewhere 
near the north end.

Paul Hertzel
Mason City, IA