[mou] Scissor-tailed Flycatcher & Short-eared Owl - Duluth, St. Louis Co.

[Jim Barrett]

A quick message to amend Tom's post.


First, thanks to Tom for finding the STFL, and to Mike Hendrickson for 
alerting me quickly. Tom told me about the Short-eared Owl and, when I went 
to look for it, found not one but six (6) of them.  They were in the 
location Tom described (which, I just realized, would actually be  the east 
corner of the pier, based on its orientation).

They flew, one-by-one, out of the grass around the eastern edge of the 
excavated area visible from the top of the dike as you approach the corner.  
One of them (#5) sat for awhile on a mound of dirt then, as I put the scope 
away, the sixth flew up from between me and the owl I was watching.

As I followed the dike around to the south corner (Bong Bridge corner) two 
SE Owls flew from a bulldozed strip, but I'm fairly certain they were two of 
the first to flush from the original location.

Also: 5 Am. Pipits
        N. Harrier
        Spotted Sandpiper

Jim Barrett
Duluth, MN

From: "M. Thomas Auer" <t_auer@lycos.com>
To: "MOU" <mou-net@cbs.umn.edu>
Subject: [mou] Scissor-tailed Flycatcher & Short-eared Owl - Duluth, St. 
Louis Co.
Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2004 17:31:00 -0600

At 4:45 I found an adult SCISSOR-TAILED FLYCATCHER at 40th Avenue. The bird 
was most often perched on the top of the chain-link fence that surrounds the 
little experimental impoundment, right as you cross the railroad tracks. It 
would occasionally fly up, flycatch and land back on the fence. I then 
walked around the impoundment, where I flushed a SHORT-EARED OWL from the 
top of the lakeside of the impoundment, near the NE corner. Mike Hendrickson 
saw the flycatcher, as did Jim Barrett about 5:30.

Tom Auer
Duluth, MN
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