I'll check on Sat for sure and possibly tomorrow if I go that way.
--Chris On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 11:29 PM, Dan Jackson <danjack...@lbwhite.com> wrote: > Today, while scouting for the bus trip that I will help to lead on Sunday > for the Houston Nature Center Festival of Owls (Houston, MN), I found a > juvenile male Snowy Owl on the north side of County Road 3 a few miles west > of Brownsville, MN. When I first spotted it, it was on the bank of a stock > pond. After I stopped, the bird got nervous and moved a little farther > away. It was at that point, that I realized that it had something fairly > large in its talons. The prey item turned out to be a Muskrat. It was > large enough that the bird couldn't fly very well and it only moved about > 30 yards from the road. > > The bird was located along County Road 3 about a mile west of the > intersection of County Rd 24 and east of the intersection with Cork Hollow > Drive. I talked to a passing motorist who lives right there and she > indicated that her father-in-law had seen a Snowy in that area earlier this > winter. Hopefully, that means that this bird will stick around at least > until the field trip on Sunday. > > If anyone sees this owl in the next couple of days, please keep me posted > with its location. It would be nice to share this bird with field trip > attendees. > > Good birding, > > Dan Jackson > Chaseburg, WI (Near La Crosse) > www.pbase.com/dejackson > > ---- > Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net > Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html > -- Happy Birding! --Chris W, Madison, WI Interpretive Naturalist Mississippi Explorer Cruises http://mississippiexplorer.com/ http://swallowtailedkite.blogspot.com http://www.flickr.com/photos/swallowtailphoto ch...@mississippiexplorer.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