[wisb] Re: Rarities in MN: Next WI?
- From: Peter Fissel <pfissel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: tiger150@xxxxxxxxxxx, wisbirdn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 20:30:38 -0500
I should mention that the Dane County Fork-tailed Flycatcher of a decade ago (I
believe it was 2000,) showed up at this time of year... you just never know.
(And I'm still kicking myself for not chasing a mega-rarity that was a
fifteen-minute drive from my first house - at least not in a timely fashion.
Sigh...)
Peter Fissel
Madison, Dane Co.
On 10/28/11, tiger150@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> As Chris West mentioned earlier, there was a Couch's/Tropical Kingbird seen
> today in Duluth, MN (see picture here:
> http://moumn.org/cgi-bin/recent.pl?op=rare) in addition to a Scissor-tailed
> Flycatcher and First of Fall Snowy Owl in Duluth and a Gray-crowned Rosy
> Finch north of Duluth all today! Plus there was photographic evidence of a
> Great Gray Owl about half an hour south of Minneapolis, and there's been a
> Purple Sandpiper hanging out in western MN for a week now.
> Lastly, a Long-eared Owl was caught and banded at a banding station west of
> Stevens Point (Portage Co.) last night. We got to hear it vocalizing after it
> was released. So cool.
>
> Anyways, my point is this: Get out birding tomorrow and find some rare
> feathered creatures! (Sunday is supposed to be rainy, at least in central
> WI.)
>
> Good birdin',
>
> Alyssa DeRubeis
> Stevens Point , Portage Co.
>
>
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