[mou] Fabulous Ssaturday Owls

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Mon, 17 Jan 2005 20:58:40 +0000 

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Bringing St. Louis, Missouri, friends John and Nancy Solodar north with us, we joined Jo and Steve Blanich for a fabulous day of owling on Saturday, January 15. 

We spotted 76 Great Gray Owls (GGOW) and 13 Northern Hawk Owls between the hours of 11:30 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. We figured we had a total of 62 original GGOW sightings after subtracting birds seen on previously traveled sections of roads. The sightings occurred mainly on Aitkin CR-5 and CR-18, with a number also seen on MN-169 and Pietz Road. Over 40% of the sightings occurred between 4:00 and 5:30 p.m. when the owls seemed to be all over. It was pretty incredible! We saw no Rough-legged Hawks, 5 Northern Shrikes, very few Snow Buntings, no Pine or Evening Grosbeaks, and fair number of Common Redpolls here and there.
On Sunday morning we saw a flock of 50 Bohemian Waxwings in the park at Crosby. 

T & E

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Tom & Elizabeth Bell 
5868 Pioneer Road South 
Saint Paul Park MN 55071 
651 459-4150
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<DIV><FONT size=3>Bringing St. Louis, Missouri, friends John and Nancy Solodar north with us, we joined Jo and Steve Blanich for a fabulous day of owling on Saturday, January 15. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=3>We spotted 76 Great Gray Owls (GGOW) and 13 Northern Hawk Owls between the hours of 11:30 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. We figured we had a total of 62 original GGOW sightings after subtracting birds seen on previously traveled sections of roads. The sightings occurred mainly on Aitkin CR-5 and CR-18, with a number also seen on MN-169 and Pietz Road. Over 40% of the sightings occurred between 4:00 and 5:30 p.m. when the owls seemed to be all over. It was pretty incredible! We saw no Rough-legged Hawks, 5 Northern Shrikes, very few Snow Buntings, no Pine or Evening Grosbeaks, and fair number of Common Redpolls here and there.</DIV>
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<P>On Sunday morning we saw a flock of 50 Bohemian Waxwings in the park at Crosby. </P>
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<DIV class=signature id=signature>--<BR>Tom &amp; Elizabeth Bell <BR>5868 Pioneer Road South <BR>Saint Paul Park MN 55071 <BR>651 459-4150</DIV></body></html>

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