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Hello: Out today with Tom Leskiw (those who are ABA members might of read a = article he wrote in "Birding" ) Tom is from northern California. I = always thought getting 312 for St. Louis Co was a decent total until he = told me he has 400+ in his county!! Highlights: -Iceland Gull. We spotted a adult glacoides Iceland Gull flying with = several Herring Gulls in excellent light. We were able to determine the = gull was at least 3-4 percent smaller than the nearby Herring Gulls. A = lifer for Tom. -Snowy Owl in the Port Terminal area, We spotted the owl at 4:30pm in = the field behind the cement plant. (Lifer) Other birds: -American Three-toed Woodpecker (male) Blue Spruce Road in Sax Zim Bog. -Red & White-winged Crossbills along the Blue Spruce Road in Sax Zim = Bog. -Sharp-tailed Grouse on the lek at 10:30am along Co. Rd 29 in Sax Zim = Bog. -Gray Jays, Pine & Evening Grosbeaks in the Bog. Sad News! About 3.6 miles north of the Sax Road on the McDavitt Road on the west = side, loggers have removed a very large chunk of tamaracks,spruce and it = now looks like a parking lot! I posted photos of what the damages looks = like in my website under "Recent Sightings" and I also posted a photo of = the imm. male Snowy Owl (notice the black beanie and wing tag sticking = out) Michael Hendrickson Duluth, Minnesota http://webpages.charter.net/mmhendrickson/ ------=_NextPart_000_0009_01C75476.55915350 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=3DContent-Type content=3D"text/html; = charset=3Diso-8859-1"> <META content=3D"MSHTML 6.00.6000.16414" name=3DGENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=3D#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=3D"Bookman Old Style" color=3D#800000 = size=3D2>Hello:</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3D"Bookman Old Style" color=3D#800000 = size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3D"Bookman Old Style" color=3D#800000 size=3D2>Out today = with Tom=20 Leskiw (those who are ABA members might of read a article he wrote in = "Birding"=20 ) Tom is from northern California. I always thought getting 312 = for St.=20 Louis Co was a decent total until he told me he has 400+ in his=20 county!!</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3D"Bookman Old Style" color=3D#800000 = size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3D"Bookman Old Style" color=3D#800000=20 size=3D2>Highlights:</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3D"Bookman Old Style" color=3D#800000 size=3D2>-Iceland = Gull. We=20 spotted a adult glacoides Iceland Gull flying with several Herring Gulls = in=20 excellent light. We were able to determine the gull was at least 3-4 = percent=20 smaller than the nearby Herring Gulls. A lifer for Tom.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3D"Bookman Old Style" color=3D#800000 size=3D2>-Snowy = Owl in the Port=20 Terminal area, We spotted the owl at 4:30pm in the field behind the = cement=20 plant. (Lifer)</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3D"Bookman Old Style" color=3D#800000 = size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3D"Bookman Old Style" color=3D#800000 size=3D2>Other=20 birds:</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3D"Bookman Old Style" color=3D#800000 size=3D2>-American = Three-toed=20 Woodpecker (male) Blue Spruce Road in Sax Zim Bog.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3D"Bookman Old Style" color=3D#800000 size=3D2>-Red = & White-winged=20 Crossbills along the Blue Spruce Road in Sax Zim Bog.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3D"Bookman Old Style" color=3D#800000 = size=3D2>-Sharp-tailed Grouse on=20 the lek at 10:30am along Co. Rd 29 in Sax Zim Bog.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3D"Bookman Old Style" color=3D#800000 size=3D2>-Gray = Jays, Pine &=20 Evening Grosbeaks in the Bog.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3D"Bookman Old Style" color=3D#800000 = size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3D"Bookman Old Style" color=3D#800000 size=3D2>Sad = News!</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3D"Bookman Old Style" color=3D#800000 size=3D2>About 3.6 = miles north=20 of the Sax Road on the McDavitt Road on the west side, loggers have = removed a=20 very large chunk of tamaracks,spruce and it now looks like a parking = lot! =20 I posted photos of what the damages looks like in my website under = "Recent=20 Sightings" and I also posted a photo of the imm. male Snowy Owl (notice = the=20 black beanie and wing tag sticking out)</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3D"Bookman Old Style" color=3D#800000 = size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3D"Bookman Old Style" color=3D#800000 = size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3D"Bookman Old Style" color=3D#800000 size=3D2>Michael=20 Hendrickson<BR>Duluth, Minnesota<BR><A=20 href=3D"http://webpages.charter.net/mmhendrickson/">http://webpages.chart= er.net/mmhendrickson/</A></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML> ------=_NextPart_000_0009_01C75476.55915350--