[mou] Bohemian Waxwings and Great Gray Owls

[Laura Erickson]

On the Scenic Highway between Duluth and Two Harbors, I had a small flock 
of about 30 Bohemian Waxwings at McQuade Road, and a larger flock of about 
150 at Knife River.  Both were easy to see from the road, and courteously 
at places where I could safely pull over to scan them, but I couldn't 
detect any Cedar Waxwings.

I had one Great Gray Owl at Brighton Beach (where there was also a lone 
Canada Goose and a Red-breasted Merganser), one near the lighthouse in Two 
Harbors (where I found the Harlequin Duck along with several Buffleheads 
and Goldeneyes), and one in my backyard when I returned home.

Laura Erickson
Duluth, MN


Producer, "For the Birds" radio program
<http://www.lauraerickson.com/>


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