Yesterday and today the Arctic arrived in northern Minnesota! I saw Lapland Longspurs, Horned Larks and my first Rough-Legged Hawk of the season. The birds were split between Two Harbors (the songbirds) and Sax-Zim Bog (the hawk). The numbers are not yet huge, but they’ve flown quite a distance!
This map is from Cornell’s All About Birds. All 3 species could use the same range map (some horned larks also breed further south)
Rough-Legged hawk? Dynamite! I’m still more interested in the furthest north range of Sandhill Crane, but Eagles, Ospreys and — particularly — Rough-Legged Hawks? Super!