[mou] northern minnesota birds

[tpulles]

My family and I spent December 21-23, which included my
birthday (Dec. 21), searching for birds in northeastern
Minnesota.  This was my first time getting up to experience
the owl invasion, and it was thrilling.  I saw a total of 38
owls, including 26 great grays between 7:30 - 8:30 A.M.


OWLS

Great Gray Owls

LAKE COUNTY
12/22 Hwy 61 - 3 birds between Duluth and Two Harbors

ST. LOUIS COUNTY
12/23 SAX-ZIM BOG Hwy 7 - 20 birds between Hwy 52 and Stone
Lake Road
12/23 SAX-ZIM BOG Stone Lake Road - 6 birds
12/23 Cty Rd 133 - 2 birds just before Hwy 73, 2 birds past
Hwy 73

Northern Hawk Owls

LAKE COUNTY
12/22 Hwy 61 - 1 bird just before mile 42 on the left side
of the road

ST. LOUIS COUNTY
12/23 SAX-ZIM BOG McDavitt Rd- 1 bird a mile north of Sax Rd
12/23 Hwy 73 - 1 bird on the right side of the road, between
Cty Rds 133 and 25

AITKIN COUNTY
12/23 Cty Rd 18 - 2 birds within two blocks east of Hwy 169,
on opposite sides of the road


NON-OWLS

Gray Jay - 4 on Spruce Road, Lake Cty
Boreal Chickadee - 1 at a feeder in Isabella, Lake Cty. 
Another at Owl Avenue in the Sax-Zim Bog, St. Louis Cty
Bohemian Waxwing - flock of over 50 at Meadowlands, Sax-Zim
Bog
Common Grackle - 1 at a feeder in Palisade, Aitkin Cty
Evening Grosbeak - 1 at Isabella
Pine Grosbeak - over 20 at Isabella.  Small flock along
Stone Lake Road in the Sax-Zim Bog
Pine Siskin - small flocks in Palisade and Sax-Zim Bog


I also saw a single moose along Hwy 1 in Lake County, about
10 miles north of Finland.  All in all, the trip was great
birthday gift!

Keith Pulles, Wright County