My wife and I and Ann and Howard Rosenberg from Toledo, Ohio spent
Presidents weekend in Duluth looking for winter birds.
On Sunday, we found a very cooperative Great Gray Owl on CR 18 0.6
miles east of Pietz's road in Aitkin County at 5:00. It initially
perched along the road and we then flew up to a limb directly across
from our car and sat there for 15 minutes with fantastic views A life
bird for the four of us.
Other highlights from the weekend
Northern Hawk Owls found along County road 133, County road 7 and
Stone Lake roads in St Louis county and at the corner of CR 5 and CR 18
in Aitkin county. We found a total of 12 NHO over the weekend
Black Billed magpie along Dart Road in Sax Zim Bog on 2/14
Bald Eagle along CR 5 in Aitkin County 2/14
Northern Shrike along Stone Lake road in St Louis county on 2/13
White Winged Crossbills along Tischer road in St Louis county on 2/16
Glaucous gull at the Superior Dump on 2/16
Boreal chickadees and Gray Jays at Admiral Road feeder
Multiple purple finches at Little Whiteface feeders. Nice assortment of
winter finches at the various Meadowlands feeders
