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-RBA *Minnesota *Minnesota Statewide *February 19, 2004 *MNST0402.19 -Birds mentioned
Hotline: Minnesota Statewide
Date: February 19, 2004
Sponsor: Minnesota Ornithologists' Union (MOU) http://biosci.umn.edu/~mou/
Reports: (763) 780-8890
Compiler: Anthony Hertzel
Transcriber: Anthony Hertzel (ahertzel@sihope.com)
This is the Minnesota Birding Report for Thursday February 19th.
On the 19th, Mark Alt found a PRAIRIE FALCON north of the Best Buy Headquarters in Richfield, Hennepin County. This is along 76th street just east of Penn Avenue.
Dedrick Benz reported 12 SPRUCE GROUSE on the 14th, about two and a quarter miles north of the Sand River on Lake County Road 2. Six more were seen in Cook County on the 15th about twenty miles north of Grand Marais along the Gunflint Trail.
Several GREAT GRAY OWLS have been reported recently. Mike Hendrickson found one near Duluth on state highway 61 between Berquist Road and Homestead Road. Jan Green reported that a Great Gray Owl has been seen on ski trails east of Greenwood Lake off Lake County Road 2. Tom Vallega found two Great Gray Owls in Sax-Zim on the 13th, a mile to a mile and a half south of Byrnes' Greenhouse along St. Louis County Road 7. And Warren Nelson reports that Great Gray Owls were seen on both the 14th and 15th within a mile of the junction of Aitkin County Road 18 and Pietz's Road. Pietz's Road is a dead-end drive running north off Aitkin County Road 18. It is situated about two miles west of Aitkin County Road 5, or about four miles east of U.S. Highway 169.
On the 16th, Brian Smith found the SNOWY OWL that has been reported north of Hutchinson in McLeod County. He found it atop a telephone pole about a half mile west of highway 15 on 220th Street. Another Snowy Owl was seen on the 14th along 690th Street between 150th Avenue and 140th Avenue about one mile west of Dodge County Road 5.
SHORT-EARED OWLS were reported from Wilkin County on the 13th and again on the 15th. From Rothsay, take County Road 26 west to 300th Avenue, turn the corner and scan the fields here.
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