[mou] MSP airport Snowy Owls

2006-01-16 Thread Alt, Mark
The Snowies continue to show activity at dawn. On Sunday, 1/15, Peter Neubeck and I were at the airport from 7:15 AM till 9:00 AM. We saw three Snowy Owls, 2 at 7:20 AM and one at 7:30 AM, all three lifted off from the area to the west of the Glycol plant on Cargo Rd and flew out of sight towards

[mou] MSP airport Snowy Owls

2006-01-06 Thread A.J. Morales
Jan 2nd my wife & I arrived noonish on Cargo rd at the glycol building. Saw a few birdirs scanning on the runway area (toward hwy 77). Some snow plows were running that spooked one of the snowies; I got a short flight pattern view (distance of approx 100 yds) that was close to the groud!. Could not

[mou] MSP airport Snowy Owls

2006-01-05 Thread eckma001
Correction -- omit the "Broad-shouldered" hawk. Oops. On 5 Jan 2006, eckma001 wrote: > Dear Mark, > Thanks for your very helpful message. Here is information from my sighting > at MSP on December 27 from 2:00-3:30 pm. Conditions were heavily overcast > and very dreary, light wind, very slight m

[mou] MSP airport Snowy Owls

2006-01-05 Thread eckma001
Dear Mark, Thanks for your very helpful message. Here is information from my sighting at MSP on December 27 from 2:00-3:30 pm. Conditions were heavily overcast and very dreary, light wind, very slight mist. I spotted a large Snowy from the FedEx lot. It was perched atop a huge mound of dirt at

[mou] MSP airport Snowy Owls

2006-01-05 Thread Alt, Mark
I have seen the Snowy Owls twice in the past 24 hours. A 2nd year male bird was visible from the FEDEX truck staging lot on Weds afternoon (1/4/06). Mark LaRose and Jim Otto and I saw the bird at a distance across the runways looking northwest. It was a very light bird with brownish markings and a