It's been quite exciting to see the many posts on snowy owl sightings. Having never seen one, my hopes are to find one this winter and photograph it. However as a novice birder, I'm not sure what the best plan of action would be.
Friday I got some nice eagle photos, and stopped at the eagle center in Wabasha. A birder who works there told me of an owl regularly being seen near Onalska, and he gave me specific directions to the place off a county road near a fence post and a barn down the road. While tempting, I'm also wondering if it's worth driving 3 hours to a place I've never been in an attempt to find the owl, or if I'm better waiting and looking on this list, and spending the time along Black Dog Road. I had no problem finding the Purple Sandpiper this fall and driving a couple of hours, but for those of you with more experience is a snowy owl reported at a location likely to be seen at the same spot repeatedly? Any tips would be appreciated. I'll be going up to Sax-Zim in January as well, so may get lucky there though I'll be with a friend who has more experience than me on that trip - typically I head out alone with my photo gear. Thanks for the advice and Merry Christmas, Fr. Paul ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
