[Mnbird] N Shrike, Lilydale Regional Park, Dakota C.

[linda whyte]

Seen mid-morning in the open area around the picnic pavilion at Pickerel
Lake; it circled low overhead and perched briefly only yards away,
affording a good look at its narrow eye mask. This is the same location
where a N. Shrike presented itself last fall, though none were detected all
winter.
The open water on the lake is expanding, and last week's flock of Trumpeter
Swans was replaced by a flock of Ring-billed Gulls. Bald Eagles are in
evidence over both lake and river, and one of them was sitting briefly in
the smaller, flatter nest on the west end of the lake, while a pair of
adults were doing tandem flight over the 35E bridge. Also present was a
Red-tailed Hawk, dodging harassment by a Crow.
In the wetland, the spring chorus is just beginning to ramp up, with the
arrival a few days ago, of Red-winged Blackbirds. A Song Sparrow was also
audible, but there was no sound from the flushed flock of small,
ground-feeding birds that may have been American Tree Sparrows, in an area
where they were seen in the fall.
Linda Whyte
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