[mou] Snowy Owls in Duluth and Esko

[Bill Tefft]

Saturday in Sax and Zim

It is always enjoyable exploring this large area.  We met people birding
from California and St. Louis.  We talked with some residents on Owl
Avenue who enjoy birds and meeting people exploring for birds.  We saw
18 rough-legged hawks with about a third of them being dark morphs, 10
bald eagles mostly adults, 1 snowy owl on Hwy 7 south of the Byrns
Greenhouse (the same one I have seen two other times in the past two
weeks), 1 northern hawk owl on the Stone Lake Road, 2 black-billed
magpies and boreal chickadees on Owl Avenue, pine grosbeaks, pine
siskins, gray jays etc.  One red fox caching a small mammal in the snow
and leaving it.  One muskat feeding.  It was a great winter day.

Bill Tefft
Parks and Recreation Instructor
Vermilion Community College
1900 E. Camp Street
Ely, MN  55731
Phone: 218-365-7241
Fax: 218-365-7207