For anyone proceeding up the north shore today. I called a friend at the park this morning after Jim Lind's summary last night for the Duluth report. I was told the Northern Hawk-owl was in the Visitors' Center Parking Lot, on the lake side. At 8:45 the person reporting the owl was still plowing, and the owl was perched on top a tree nearby.
They had also found a dead Hawk-owl, thought it had been eaten by a pine marten. So likely there have been 2 in the area. Mike Steffes Lake County e-mail: steff...@umn.edu