Hey everyone,
I spent the past weekend guiding clients around Sax-Zim Bog. I know a lot of people want owl updates, so here's the latest I know of: Great Gray Owls have become rather scarce in the bog itself. They are still present, but haven't been as visible lately. I found only one Great Gray along the North Shore this past weekend. Boreal Owls have also become quite scarce, but two were seen on Sat in the bog (including one I found along Arkola Rd) and one was seen on Sun, also in the Bog. There are currently three Hawk-owls in the Bog that I know of for sure, and possibly a fourth. The two WI Hawk-owls near Poplar, WI and the Door County Hawk-owl are still around as well. I took quite a few photos last weekend and managed to come up with a few good ones. Here are my favorites: Northern Hawk-owl: http://www.flickr.com/photos/swallowtailphoto/8532590007/in/photostream Boreal Owl: http://www.flickr.com/photos/swallowtailphoto/8533698872/in/photostream/ Gray Jay: http://www.flickr.com/photos/swallowtailphoto/8532589825/in/photostream/ Townsend's Solitaire: http://www.flickr.com/photos/swallowtailphoto/8532589601/in/photostream/ Boreal Chickadee: http://www.flickr.com/photos/swallowtailphoto/8533699706/in/photostream/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/swallowtailphoto/8533698082/in/photostream/ Black-capped Chickadee: http://www.flickr.com/photos/swallowtailphoto/8532587577/in/photostream/ Rough-legged Hawk: http://www.flickr.com/photos/swallowtailphoto/8533697784/in/photostream/ Great Gray Owl: http://www.flickr.com/photos/swallowtailphoto/8532556089/in/photostream/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/swallowtailphoto/8533665396/in/photostream/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/swallowtailphoto/8532550915/in/photostream/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/swallowtailphoto/8532552117/in/photostream/ The rest of my photos from this past weekend and more, can, of course, be found at my Flickr page: http://www.flickr.com/photos/swallowtailphoto/ Happy Birding! --Chris W, Richland County Tour leader Swallowtail Birding Tours https://www.facebook.com/Swallowtailbirdingtours?ref=hl http://swallowtailedkite.blogspot.com/ <http://swallowtailedkite.blogspot.com/%20%0Ahttp://www.flickr.com/photos/swallowtailphoto> http://www.flickr.com/photos/swallowtailphoto<http://swallowtailedkite.blogspot.com/%20%0Ahttp://www.flickr.com/photos/swallowtailphoto> Interpretive Naturalist Mississippi Explorer Cruises http://mississippiexplorer.com/ ch...@mississippiexplorer.com "The beauty and genius of a work of art may be reconceived, though its first material expression be destroyed; a vanished harmony may yet again inspire the composer; but when the last individual of a race of living things breathes no more, another heaven and another earth must pass before such a one can be again." (From William Beebe's "The Bird: Its Form and Function," 1906) ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
