Milt Blomberg and I found our third site in Morrison County with B-B Woodpeckers. We found a nice male with a yellow crown 2 miles S of Bowlus on 120th Ave. (county rd 3) and a little more than one half mile West on 450th Str. The bird was on the North side of the road working over the dead Larch trees. Its uncanny how we worked over a full three day period, and pushed snow past our knees, at the last site, for five and a half hours that we would find this bird while sitting in a warm car watching it next to the road 20 ft away. We also found Common Redpolls, 2 Great Horned Owls, Pileated, Downy, Hairy Woodpeckers, plus many , many crows hassling the Owls. For county listers this is a good bird because it is on the line between Stearns and Morrison. Milt has also found B-B-Woodpeckers in Stearns and has found evidence of them in two other places. We are checking many sites in the two Counties and will report on them. After talking to a few experts they have also found the birds in the area and attribute it to the dead trees infected by larvae. Kevin Mauer has also reported more birds in the Cushing area.
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