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January 1, 2004, Spent the day checking for some recently reported species in North Eastern Minnesota with a small group of friends. We tried many spots in the Sax Zim bog area without success for Great Gray Owl and missed on the Black-backed Woodpecker on CR 213 as well. But we were successful on the following species. @ Pileated Woodpecker - Fly by on I 35 in Pine County @ Harlequin Duck - 9:00 - 9:30am St. Louis County, at the mouth of the French River Lake County - Two Harbors @ Harlequin Duck - 10:30am - in agate bay feeding along the rocky shoreline closest to downtown Two Harbors. @ Bufflehead - Agate Bay @ Common Merganser @ House Sparrow - several flocks of 50+ observed in the downtown area Lake County Road 9 @ Pine Siskin - near the intersection of CR 9 & the Expressway @ White-winged Crossbill @ Red-breasted Nuthatch Saint Louis County @ Hoary Redpoll @ Gray Jay @ Boreal Chickadee - Owl Avenue, 3/4 of a mile South of CR 52 @ Pine Grosbeak Craig Mandel - [email protected] - Minnetonka, MN -------------------------------1073076067 Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <HTML><HEAD> <META charset=3DUTF-8 http-equiv=3DContent-Type content=3D"text/html; charse= t=3Dutf-8"> <META content=3D"MSHTML 6.00.2800.1276" name=3DGENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY style=3D"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fffff= f"> <DIV>January 1, 2004,</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Spent the day checking for some recently reported species in North East= ern Minnesota with a small group of friends. We tried many spots in th= e Sax Zim bog area without success for Great Gray Owl and missed on the Blac= k-backed Woodpecker on CR 213 as well. But we were successful on the f= ollowing species.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>@ Pileated Woodpecker - Fly by on I 35 in Pine County</DIV> <DIV>@ Harlequin Duck - 9:00 - 9:30am St. Louis County, at the mouth of the=20= French River </DIV> <DIV>Lake County - Two Harbors</DIV> <DIV>@ Harlequin Duck - 10:30am - in agate bay feeding along the rocky shore= line closest to downtown Two Harbors. <BR>@ Bufflehead - Agate Ba= y</DIV> <DIV>@ Common Merganser</DIV> <DIV>@ House Sparrow - several flocks of 50+ observed in the downtown area</= DIV> <DIV>Lake County Road 9</DIV> <DIV>@ Pine Siskin - near the intersection of CR 9 & the Expressway</DIV= > <DIV>@ White-winged Crossbill</DIV> <DIV>@ Red-breasted Nuthatch</DIV> <DIV>Saint Louis County</DIV> <DIV>@ Hoary Redpoll</DIV> <DIV>@ Gray Jay</DIV> <DIV>@ Boreal Chickadee - Owl Avenue, 3/4 of a mile South of CR 52</DIV> <DIV>@ Pine Grosbeak</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT lang=3D0 face=3DArial size=3D2 FAMILY=3D"SANSSERIF" PTSIZE=3D"10"= >Craig Mandel - [email protected] - Minnetonka, MN </FONT></DIV></BODY></HTM= L> -------------------------------1073076067--

