Guiding a great group from southern Iowa up in the Sax-Zim Bog today. Snowy Owl at 7:15 am between Duluth Int'l Airport and the Correctional Facility on Stebner [only 1/2 mile from 53] On a telephone pole before dawn. New location 7:45 am in Sax-Zim and it is Minus 37 to Minus 41 (according to locals)...Ice fog forms in low spots. 2 Great Gray Owls [2.5 to 3.5 miles N of Sax Rd on McDavitt] 9am 1 N Hawk Owl [Sax Rd (CR28) and CR 7) Right next to the road today. 1 N Hawk Owl [on Owl Avenue! right at where road bends to the west at deer rib feeder/ditch] 3pm New location 1 Sharp-tailed Grouse flying across Sax Rd near CR7 2 Boreal Chickadees at deer rib feeder on Admiral White-winged Crossbills along Lake Nichols Rd 1 mile W of 53 2 Black-backed Woodpeckers on E side of McDavitt at previously reported location (look for trails into Tamarack woods) Evening Grosbeaks at Morses feeder on Blue Spruce. Also 1 N Shrike, many Pine Grosbeaks, 10 Gray Jays, 2 Bald Eagles. It eventually got up to 9 degrees...above! A 50 degree temperature swing. Sparky Stensaas 2515 Garthus Road Wrenshall, MN 55797 218.341.3350 cell [log in to unmask] _________________________________________________________________ Windows Live™ Hotmail®: Chat. Store. Share. Do more with mail. http://windowslive.com/howitworks?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_t1_hm_justgotbetter_howitworks_012009 ---- Join or Leave mou-net:http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives:http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html