Saturday in Sax and Zim It is always enjoyable exploring this large area. We met people birding from California and St. Louis. We talked with some residents on Owl Avenue who enjoy birds and meeting people exploring for birds. We saw 18 rough-legged hawks with about a third of them being dark morphs, 10 bald eagles mostly adults, 1 snowy owl on Hwy 7 south of the Byrns Greenhouse (the same one I have seen two other times in the past two weeks), 1 northern hawk owl on the Stone Lake Road, 2 black-billed magpies and boreal chickadees on Owl Avenue, pine grosbeaks, pine siskins, gray jays etc. One red fox caching a small mammal in the snow and leaving it. One muskat feeding. It was a great winter day.
Bill Tefft Parks and Recreation Instructor Vermilion Community College 1900 E. Camp Street Ely, MN 55731 Phone: 218-365-7241 Fax: 218-365-7207