This last weekend, Bill Stauffer and I birded around the county and
found a few interesting things. The SNOWY OWL is still present along
370th Lane about 3 miles northeast of Aitkin just off of Highways
210/169. There are at least 16 SHARP-TAILED GROUSE dancing four tenths
mile south of the to
I had to work today but after work I went out for a while. I found 2
BLACK-BACKED WOODPECKERS and 1 NORTHERN THREE-TOED WOODPECKER on Aitkin
County Road 3, 5 miles to the west of the junction of C.R.1 and C.R.3.
Birds were right beside the road in the low area on the south side of
the road. Al
There are a lot of members of the heron family hanging around the rice
paddies north of Aitkin. I counted a total of 33 GREAT EGRETS sitting
in the trees with several more in the paddies. Also present were at
least 4 AMERICAN BITTERNS, 6 GREEN HERONS, several GREAT BLUE HERONS,
eight SANDHIL
This weekend, Jo and Steve Blanich, Butch Ukura and I birded north of
town. On the rice paddies north along County Road 1 we found a
RED-NECKED PHALAROPE, 5 GREAT EGRETS, SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHERS, LEAST
SANDPIPERS, BAIRD'S SANDPIPERS, PECTORAL SANDPIPERS, GREATER AND LESSER
YELLOWLEGS, AMERICAN
Today Steve and Jo Blanich, Butch Ukura and I birded around the
central part of the county. We found 2 NORTHERN HAWK OWLS, 5 SNOWY
OWLS, 2 ROUGH-LEGGED HAWKS, about 100 SNOW BUNTINGS, PINE GROSBEAKS.
The hawk owls were in the same places as I reported from
Saturday: the first,
The Yellow Rails have shown up at the McGregor Marsh and the Rice Lake
National Wildlife Refuge in very good numbers. These as well as
American Bitterns, Soras and Leconte's Sparrows were seen and hear on
Tuesday night. Warren Nelson
Hope that giving an update on the owls isn't getting old . But, there
were 4 GREAT GRAY OWLS on C.R. 18 this weekend. Two were about 1 & 8/10
miles north on Pietz's Road just south of Pietz's house. The third was 1
& 1/10 miles west of Pietz's Road on C.R.18 and the fourth was 1 & 3/10
west of Pie
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