First, thanks to all that responded to my request, I know Friday during the day is hard for a lot of folks. It was great hanging with Ron and yes there were definately three snows :-)
On Feb 7, 2014, at 11:39 AM, Ron Taube <ronta...@aol.com> wrote: > Hi Birders > Some of you might remember a few days ago that a woman named Monica asked if > anyone would take her out and show her a Snowy Owl. Well I volunteered and > this morning we met up in Ramsey near the Cell tower. Actually she got there > early and spotted that one Snowy that’s been hanging around the cell tower > before I arrived. I think that one is a juvenile. When I got there I saw > the snowy landing atop a pine tree . Monica and I got some photos then I > asked her if she was interested in looking for the other snowy and she said > she would. We drove to all the usual spots where the other one has been seen > including around Coborn’s and the field just north of there but without any > luck. Finally I spotted one atop a house just north of the field . By the > time we got near it it had flown to the field just south of the houses. We > watched it for a while then it took off and flew a block west to some other > houses then it headed back towards us and the houses we were near and out of > nowhere another one joined up with it and they seemed to make physical > contact on the side of a house. I ran around trying to see where they went > and they had both disappeared from my sight but Monica saw it too and saw > them flying back west again towards the other houses so we got into our cars > and followed them but we had lost them . We then went back to the first snowy > that we saw and he was still there in the pine tree resting near the cell > tower on the other side of Armstrong. I realize that it’s not proof but > Monica agreed that it was very likely that there are at least three snowy’s > in that area. I hung around a bit longer after Monica left and found one > back at the houses on the east side of Armstrong seemingly hiding behind a > roof and then back to the cell tower where that one was now sitting next to > the road so I got some nice photos of him. > Here is a link to photos of two of them, I never got a photo of the third > one. http://www.flickr.com/photos/ronsthoughts/ > Ron Taube Coon Rapids > > > ---- > Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net > Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
