After viewing the male Varied Thrush at the feeder in Alexandria on Friday I went to Swift County to look for the Snowy Owl that had been previously reported. I did not find the Snowy Owl after a two hour search but there were a number of other interesting species in the area as follows: Rough-legged Hawk - 1 American Kestrel - male - 1 Snow Bunting - 20 Ring-necked Pheasant - 30 all females except 1 American Tree Sparrow - 50 Northern Shrike - 3 Horned Lark - 2 Red-winged Blackbird - 11 From here I went over to St. Cloud to look for the previously reported Long-tailed Duck and after a frustrating search and had given up I stopped at the Holiday Station at the Miss. River bridge in Sartell and there was the female Long-tailed Duck along the river bank on the Stearns County side of the river just below the Holiday Station. Bob Janssen ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html