Nate & I made the northern swing today; as Mike H said yesterday, spectacular:
* Slaty-backed Gull, seven gull species total (Canal Park) * Hybrid Common/Barrow's Goldeneye (same, missed pure Barrow's) * Northern Hawk Owl on Kolu (sp.?) Road * Great Gray Owls on McDavitt Road and, surprisingly, Highway 200 in Aitkin County (2 miles from MN 2) * Boreal Chickadees, Gray Jays, Evening Grosbeak, many Pine Grosbeaks on Sax-Zim feeders. * BB Magpies in two locations. Image/sound bite of the day: Northern Hawk Owl flying directly down road at us - landing in trees - only to be continually screamed at by pop up Magpie, with us in between. Eric Brunke/Laura Erickson sighting in bog as well. Good birding to all! Al Schirmacher Princeton, MN Sent from my iPhone ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
