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 Michael Gordon Sylvania, Ohio ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html