Shortly before 4:00 this afternoon I saw a probable gray phase Gyrfalcon near the intersection of 70th Avenue South and Minnesota Highway 9 (just north of Downer). It was a massive gray falcon flying low crossing over Highway 9 heading to the east-southeast. I pulled into a farm driveway to watch it fly into the distance. It apparenlty flushed a bunch of prairie chickens as a flock got up about 1 mile to the east-southeast. I was unable to relocate the bird, but I didn't have much time to look. I've seen Gyrfalcons maybe 8 times in the last few years in the Pierre South Dakota area. Mark Otnes Fargo ND 701-241-4194 [log in to unmask] ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html