[mou] MSP Snowys, Dakota Gyr, Am Blackducks

[JELLISBIRD@aol.com]

    Saw two of the Snowy Owls at the airport with help from Connie Brunell. 
One was on the fence immediately behind the glycol reprocessing facility and 
one was further up Cargo Road on a small mound of snow, but on the same side of 
the road between the two tunnels. 
    Dangerfield's pond in Shakopee had at least two Am. Blackducks among the 
mallards.
    I was looking west at a RTHawk atop one of the tall metal power poles 
east of the intersection of MN55 and Dakota 42(East) when the Grey Phase 
Gyrfalcon swept into view about 12:05 today. After it cleared 55 and the wires it 
dropped low and powered across the triangular field at that intersection and then 
went across 42. It rose above tree height, went over the tree line on the 
bluff of the river  and then turned east and went along the tree line towards 
Schaars Bluff and dropped out of sight. I couldn't find it again after that.
    John Ellis, St. Paul