[mou] Possible Screech-Owl in Duluth

[Laura Erickson]

I let my dogs out a little before midnight Wednesday night and distinctly 
heard an Eastern Screech-Owl somewhere in my backyard.  I will post if I 
hear it again, and will try to find it tomorrow if it isn't merely flying 
through.  Meanwhile, because of one birder's bizarre rudeness toward me 
this spring, my husband does not want birders prowling around our 
yard.   But this is a regular neighborhood with small lots, so chances are 
if the bird actually sticks around, it will hang out in other yards as well.

Laura Erickson
Duluth, MN

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There is symbolic as well as actual beauty in the migration of 
birds.  There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of 
nature--the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after the winter.

                                 --Rachel Carson