[mou] Minneapolis

[Jonathan Ferguson]

Speaking of yesterday at Loring Park...

I'm 95% certain I saw a common loon there at about 7:00 PM.  I didn't have
binocs, but it was about 50-70 feet away, in the middle of the bigger lake.
It had the sharp, all-black head of the common loon; it was making swift
diving runs (and there is an abundance of fish in the lake); it wasn't a
cormorant or any kind of merganser or grebe.  I went back, surreptitiously,
with better binocs while "getting takeout", but it was there no longer.

I used to think that common loons were reclusive and anthrophobic, but after
seeing them "socialize" with a boat, bank-casting fishermen, and a gaggle
birders up near Gunflint lodge, and seeing one on Lake Calhoun in April, I'm
not so sure.  You bird, you learn.

Jonathan

-----Original Message-----
From: rodge027 [mailto:rodge027@umn.edu] 
Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2003 2:44 PM
To: mou-net@cbs.umn.edu
Subject: [mou] Minneapolis


Hi.

I'm extremely new to birding, as well as this list, so I'm not sure if this
will be of interest to anyone--Yesterday, at Loring Park in Minneapolis, I
saw a Green Heron, and what I believe were a Great Egret and a Great Blue
Heron.  

Also, my friend and I are going birding July 1st through the 6th (I'm not
sure if this is a good time or not)--starting around Fergus Falls, up to
around Bemidji (I think).  If anyone has a pointers, things to look out
for, etc, I'd love to hear.

--Tiffany
*Every word is a prejudice* --Nietzsche

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