Today, my wife and I found a female American Three-toed Woodpecker in the "Old Hwy 6 Bog" north of Deer River. (To the best of my knowledge, there has only been one report of this species in the state all winter season; in Lake of the Woods County.) To get there, in Deer River, take Hwy 6 north and go about 4 miles (from Hwy 2). At .3 miles past CR 19, take a right and follow the road north until you reach the end of the plowing just past the last driveway. It is legal to park here, and you have to walk through the snow about .65 miles to the spot where the woodpecker was at. There was a snag and a number of live trees with evidence of foraging. If you decide to try this, you'll see the tracks where we went into the woods at the west to see the bird. We also saw White-winged Crossbills (~15), Boreal Chickadees (2), and Gray Jays (2) in the same area.
-- Shawn Conrad Sponsor <http://bighalfyear.dojiggy.com/itasca> my Big Half Year for the Bog www.saxzim.org ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
