Sax-Zim Christmas Bird Count Monday Dec. 17, 2007 28 species Highlights: 1 Northern Goshawk adult (Kelsey Whiteface Rd nr. farm with turkeys and chickens) 1 Northern Hawk Owl (1/2 mile west of CR7 on Sax Rd. (CR28)) (see Shawn's photo on MOU Recently Seen) 3 Black-backed Woodpeckers (one 1.1 mi W. of MN53 on Lake Nichols Rd.) 5 Mourning Doves (first time recorded on count) 4 Boreal Chickadees (roadside feeding station on Admiral Rd.) 120 Snow Buntings (just northeast of Meadowlands on Dart Rd) 70 Pine Grosbeaks 21 C. Redpolls 16 Red Crossbills (two flocks...one flock in Cemetary on Cemetary Rd (road goes east off MN53 1 mi. S of Cotton) Misses: Evening GrosbeakGreat Gray Owl White-winged Crossbill (spruce cones are almost non-existant) Black-billed Magpie Thanks to the participants: Dave Benson, Lars Benson, Ken Zimmer, Sandy Roggenkamp, Shawn Zierman, Molly and Dave Evans, Sparky Stensaas Sparky Stensaas 2515 Garthus Road Wrenshall, MN 55797 218.341.3350 cell sparkystensaas at hotmail.com _________________________________________________________________ Share life as it happens with the new Windows Live. http://www.windowslive.com/share.html?ocid=TXT_TAGHM_Wave2_sharelife_122007 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://moumn.org/pipermail/mou-net_moumn.org/attachments/20071218/ddfcf75c/attachment.html
