On Feb 8-9 Guided Carl Sams II and Jean Stoick of Michigan. Feb 8 Highlights: -Great Gray Owl on the Stickney Rd between 4-5pm. The owl was searched for on Feb 9th and was never refound. From CR 52 go north approx. 1 mile to the east west diversion dike. -Boreal Chickadees along the Stoney River Rd in Lake Co. -Snowy Owl (banded #27) is roosting on the ice ridge off Barkers Island in Superior, WI.
Feb 9 Highlights: -3 Hoary Redpolls on the Admiral Rd feeder in Sax Zim Bog, 1 Hoary Redpoll on the Owl Avenue feeder about a mile north of Correction Line Rd on west side of Owl Avenue. * Also there is a reliable Long-tailed Weasel feeding on the carcass that has been reported by several birders in the last few days including today. - Boreal Chickadees, Common Redpolls, Pine Grosbeaks and Grays Jays plus White-winged Crossbills are found along Arkola Rd feeder and the Admiral Rd feeder. - 5 Black-billed Magpies on the Sax Rd .5 miles east of McDavitt Rd. On Feb 10-11 (day 1) Guiding Ralph Morocco of Nebraska Feb 10 Highlights: - Ruffed Grouse in several locations in the bog * Good numbers this year in the bog - Rough-legged Hawk on CR 29 near Bachelor Square Rd just south of Meadowlands. * Again there is still plenty of Hoary Redpolls, Boreal Chickadees, Common Redpolls, WW Crossbills, Northern Shrikes to be found either at the deer suet feeders which are placed in good spruce tree stands where the crossbills are feeding on. The residential feeders like Blue Spruce Rd feeder is still feeding Evening Grosbeaks. * Hawk Owls are easily found along McDavitt Rd where I seen up to two individuals. One bird is just north of the RR tracks near the south end of the bog and the other is near the farm house about .5 miles north of the Sax Rd. I also seen a Hawk Owl along CR 28 near the intersection of CR 7. I also had a report there was a Hawk Owl near the Byrne's Greenhouse last Saturday along CR 7 * Great Gray Owls are getting very hard to find and it looks like most if not all dispersed from the areas they were found regularly in the bog like McDavitt Rd or Nichols Lake Rd. The totals of owl species as of Feb 10: Great Gray Owl reported sightings = 58 Northern Hawk Owl reported sightings = 65 Snowy Owl reported sightings = 65 Boreal Owl reported sightings = 17 ( 3 of the 17 were carcasses found ) Mike Hendrickson Duluth, Minnesota Website: http://webpages.charter.net/mmhendrickson/ Blog: http://colderbythelakebirding.blogspot.com/ ---- Join or Leave mou-net:http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives:http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
