If you see Snowy Owls now, please report all sightings. I took my 17th trip to the Minneapolis Airport today to see Snowy Owls. This was only the second time I was skunked. I was there at 6:45 and searched till 8:15 to no avail. Multitudinous Horned Larks and a few Longspurs heard and seen. If anyone is seeing these birds still, please post it, so we can estimate when the date of departure for the Arctic tundra was. I then dropped south to Black Dog and found 30 Common Mergansers on the river, several Bald Eagles and Red-tails along the river, (one an extremely light immature Krider's), and a Northern Shrike just east of the power plant, actively feeding from the 20 foot tall trees in the grassy area south of the road.
Mark Alt Brooklyn Center, MN
