[mou] This past weekend in Aitkin County

[Warren Nelson]

This last weekend, Bill Stauffer, Clara Dahle and I birded around the
county and found a few interesting birds. Probably the most interesting
and the most out of place was a CAPE MAY WARBLER on C.R. 18 about 3
miles east of highway 169. It was with a couple of COMMON REDPOLLS and
it flew in next to the car when Bill played a Boreal Chickadee tape.
Also seen were:  NORTHERN HAWK OWLS in 3 different places along C.R. 18
(all between 1/2 and 2 miles east of highway 169), a GREAT GRAY OWL on
C.R. 1 about a mile north of township 379, several WHITE-WINGED
CROSSBILLS , PINE GROSBEAKS, GRAY JAYS, BOREAL CHICKADEES (at the Rabey
tree farm on highway 200), GOLDEN-CROWNED KINGLETS, lots of PINE
SISKINS, several SNOW BUNTINGS , TUNDRA SWANS, 29 ROUGH-LEGGED HAWKS and
a dead SHORT-EARED OWL along C.R. 1 north of the diversion channel.
Warren Nelson