Hello, To add to Mike's post (by the way, thanks for tracking the owls reports this year and for everything you did with the Sax-Zim festival - hopefully I can finally make it next year).
If you use eBird (a project of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and Audubon - ebird.org) you can check all the arrival and departures in Minnesota for any year (or a combination of years). By setting the date to just 2009, you can see a report that either tells you the first time or last time a bird has been reported this year. According to that report: Great Grey Owl - February 21st in the bog (no exact location given) Northern Hawk Owl - February 22nd in the bog (no exact location given) Both sightings were by different eBird users. FYI: 113 species reported this year already Thanks, Derek Bakken spottedtow...@gmail.com ornitholature.blogspot.com ---- Join or Leave mou-net:http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives:http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
