This evening I took a drive up to Aitkin County Road 18. There were two NORTHERN HAWK OWLS right at the junction of C.R.18 and C.R.5, sitting on consecutive telephone poles, one eating a meadow vole. There were also two SHORT-EARED OWLS along C.R.18, one and six-tenths miles east of Highway 169, one sitting beautifully on a small tree and the other floating around the field on the south side of the road. Also seen along C.R.18: one BARRED OWL, two NORTHERN SHRIKES, two SHARP-TAILED GROUSE and a NORTHERN HARRIER. Other weekend birds: American Kestrels, Hooded Mergansers, Common Mergansers, Trumpeter Swans, Canada Geese, Red-winged Blackbirds, Snow Buntings. Warren Nelson ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html