I just recieved an email inquiring more information about the loon I saw in Two
Harbors on February 22nd to confirm species identification.
When I saw the loon I was absolutely thrilled because I was thinking it could
be a Yellow-billed. I took time (30 minutes) to follow it and observe it from
The information from my last email about the Common Loon was going off the
Sibley Guide to Birds, which was all I had with me at the time of observation.
After viewing several other sources and images on the internet I am not quite
as sure of my initial ID, though it is still the most likely. I
Present this morning on Melrude Rd just S of Berg Lake Rd. This area is worth
checking if you fail to see owls in the bog proper, as up to three individual
birds have been present in the last few days.
Ben Yokel
Cotton
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Saturday, Feb. 28, 2009 at 10 am, I noted the owl is
sleeping in the wood duck box visible from the
street. Look through the pines at the southwest
corner of the house to see the larger pole
mounted box at the northwest corner of the house.
Last Sunday it was sitting in the hole from 1 PM
until
This is sort of a tongue-in-cheek subject line as nary a birder showed up for
today's Itasca County field trip! I expected a few individuals, but I sat
there in the parking lot of the Civic Center and nobody showed! (Must have
been the cold--preregistration will be required for next year's
Seven gray partridges tonight digging in the snow one-quarter mile north of
180th and Joan in Dakota County, on Joan just north of the line of evergreens,
at dusk.
Roy Zimmerman
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