We just got back from three days in Becker, Norman, Mahnomen, Polk, and Red Lake counties. Monday the 15th was also a good raptor day in that area so the birds were moving south across a very broad front. We weren't counting but observed large numbers of Bald Eagles, sharp-shins, red-tails, a few broadwings, a couple of merlins and osprey, and a single swainson's in Red Lake county.
Best bird of the trip was a Short-eared Owl in northern Becker County, just south of the Waubun marsh WMA , at dusk on the 14th. Dennis and Barbara Martin [email protected]
