[mou] raptors, anyone?

[linda]

gyrfalcon, a bit like clockwork: on 170th, south field, by 3:30--may 
have been ground-feeding first, then suddenly appeared on the irrigation 
equipment--made a couple of tentative flying feints at a duck, but 
quickly returned to perch

sideshows:

one mature bald eagle overhead

one Cooper's hawk, which flew close over 170th and darted into an open 
shed in the farmyard north of the road in apparent pursuit of a sparrow,
-- it disappeared behind a circular steel corn crib, presumably to dine

one kestrel, on a wire over Hwy 52, just north of the refinery

red(road?)tail hawks perched at the roadside on 52: three--
one on a hwy. sign, eating something large draped over the sign
one at the edge of the Pine Bend SNA
one near the open settling ponds

a few turkeys among the geese lounging at the grain-related rail 
terminal on Pine Bend Trail

one probable shrike at the entrance to the archery range in Spring Lake Park

Linda Whyte