Good afternoon....I work on the Minneapolis/East Bank campus of the University of Minnesota. This morning around 11:45 a.m., while walking from Walter Library to Rapson Hall via the mall sidewalk near Northrop Auditorium, I saw 13 American robins, 5 tree sparrows, 2 pigeons, and a male Northern cardinal. The location, more specifically: robins mostly in small crabapple (?) tree (and surrounding larger trees) on eastern edge of Northrop Plaza wall; some robins and sparrows in small birch next to Morrill Hall south side door; and the cardinal in a large tree on the Church St corner of Morrill Hall. Robins were also seen in trees outside of Rapson Hall connection to the Mechanical Engineering Bldg. The robins have been around for a couple of weeks, but I had never seen this many before in these two blocks...Here's to good birding at your place of employment!
Kathy Confer PS: A week ago, I had an adult red-tailed hawk come crashing into the branches of a small grove of trees right next to my house--trying to land about 15 feet above the ground. I think it was after a red squirrel that was "frozen" mid-trunk below where the hawk landed. The hawk couldn't get its wings folded up to perch on the limb so it took off as quickly and clumsily as it had tried to land...Suburban Wild Kingdom near Lake Josephine, off of Lexington Avenue, where Arden Hills, Shoreview and Roseville meet.
