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Sat, 14 Jan 2012 21:05:54 -0700
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My husband and I drove around the harbor and visited Canal Park
briefly today. Didn't get either a Snowy Owl or the Gyrfalcon spotted
this morning, but did find a young Peregrine Falcon feasting on a
pigeon on the BendTec buildlng. I got some photos, but could only see
(and not read much of) the aluminum band, not the color band.

We were only at Canal Park for a few minutes before a ship went
through, but got nice looks (and a few nice photos) of one Iceland,
one Glaucous, and one Ring-billed Gull in addition to the ubiquitous
Herring Gulls. A pair of Buffleheads were fun to watch (I showed them
to a bunch of kids who pronounced them "cool." Didn't pick out
anything else among the Mallards and Common Goldeneyes. When we left,
hardly any birds had returned, but the Mallards and Buffleheads were
out of the shipping canal and didn't seem bothered by the ruckus.

There was pretty crappy light, but I took photos, which are the most
recent posted on my flickr photostream at
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lauraerickson/.

A handful of Pine Siskins and one lone Common Redpoll arrived in my
yard yesterday, and my neighbor had two juncos today. Slim pickin's in
my neighborhood otherwise.

-- 
Laura Erickson
Duluth, MN

For the love, understanding, and protection of birds

There is symbolic as well as actual beauty in the migration of birds.
There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of
nature--the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after
the winter.

            —Rachel Carson

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