Hello All, My dad and I had the opportunity yesterday to visit Duluth and get a little birding time in though spent most of the time running errands and getting my sister's pre-brace's in. We began through Silver Bay and up CR-16 in hopes of a hawk owl, great grey, or something like that but failed to see anything interesting. From their we stopped in Sax Zim and re-found the hawk owl part way down the Sax road where it flew from an aspen top re-alighting upon another much closer for excellent viewing and picture taking. After about 15 minutes we headed on up to Mcdavit's road and found another hawk owl. That was about all or most of all the excitement that took place their except tons of rough-legged hawks including a dark phase or two and a mature bald eagle perched on the road side ten feet from our car...They look about twice as large as usual. On the way down Lake Superior looked superb for viewing but by the time our errands and stuff were done after the Sax Zim visit it was extremely rough and made for difficult viewing at Wisconsin Pt. I found a 1st winter Thayer's gull among many herrings and a ring-billed or two, but was having difficulty finding my prime target... a black-backed gull. But finally I prevailed and found a nice 2nd year bird on the Minnesota break wall topping off an exciting day of birding. Good birding to all,
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