[mou] 16 Great Gray & 5 Northern Hawk-owls at Sax Zim

[heidi hughes]

My husband and I spent Thursday at Sax Zim bog and spotted 4 
Rough-legged Hawks, 2 flocks of horned larks and 16 Great Gray Owls and 
5 Northern Hawk-owls.  The skys were overcast and gray.

10am - 1 GG on the (right) north side of 133 just past the cemetery and 
ball park (in the first boggy area - by the eastern tree line) as you 
drive in from US 53.  About 100 yard from the road.

We drove to Meadowlands and up to Owl Ave and saw several Rough-legged 
Hawks.

12:30pm - 1 hawk-owl hunting from a utility pole on the west side of 
the railroad tracks across from Byrnes Greenhouse.

1pm - 1 hawk-owl hunting from a utility pole about a mile from Hwy 7  
on Stone Lake road

  2:25 to 3:30 pm - 7 GGs  on the road to Melrude, hunting from perches  
(10-20 feet up) within 5 - 10 yards from the road.  1 GG just past the 
Melrude cemetery.

3:40 pm - 1 GG on the south side of Arcola about a mile east of Perry 
Rd.

4:10pm  2  hawk-owls on Hwy 7 a mile south of the Byrnes Greenhouse - 
one on the east side of the road on the utility wire, the other on the 
west side on the utility poles by the railroad tracks (the one on the 
west side may be the same one we saw at 12:30pm)

4:20pm   2 GGs (continuing our drive north towards Byrnes Greenhouse,  
One 1/2 mile on the west side on the utility pole, the other 1/4 mile 
on the east side on the utility wire.

4:28pm  1 hawk-owl, hunting from the last tree in the front yard of the 
house at Byrnes Greenhouse - overlooking the field on the east side of 
the road.

4:45- 5:15pm  4 GGs on the east side of Hwy 7 between the Greenhouse 
and Stone Lake Road.

Heidi Hughes
PO Box 158
Nelson, WI  54756

715-673-4799