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LAKES, Minn. -- The crowds have been gathering at a rural Becker County farm
recently for a rare sight in these parts.
A
peculiar, brilliantly, bright red bird caught the eye of Steve Roberts, who
lives seven miles east of Richwood. The bird was just hanging out in his yard.
“It
looked weird -- I’m no bird expert, but I didn’t think I’d ever seen it
before,” said Roberts, who got a better look at it the next day and was certain
he had never seen anything like it.
When
his wife, Patrice, came home that evening, she saw it sitting in her garden.
“And
I thought, ‘Hmm, when did I buy that cutsie, little ornament?’” said Patrice.
“But then I saw it fly away.”
Although
the Roberts aren’t what they’d describe as “birders,” they do feed them and
watch them in their yard, and they wanted to know what this thing was. Their
curiosity was really perked when two of them showed up.
“They’re just beautiful, delicate little things,” said Steve, who called Wildlife Biologist Wayne Brininger, who, based on the description, began rattling off possibilities over the phone for the Roberts to look up on their iPad.
“He was naming them off, and as I looked them up I was like, ‘no, no, no’ ” said Steve. “And then he paused and said, ‘What about a Vermilion Flycatcher?’ and so I looked that up and boom -- that was exactly it.”
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