There were quite a few good birds seen this last weekend in the county. There were 2 GREAT GRAY OWLS seen both on Saturday night and Sunday night. On Saturday night they were on C.R.18 a couple hundred yards on either side of Pietz's Road and on Sunday there were about a mile north on Pietz's Road. Also seen: 3 HOARY REDPOLLS in Palisade, WHITE-WINGED CROSSBILLS, several BOREAL CHICKADEES at the tree farm at Rabey on Hwy. 200 (milepost 186), PINE GROSBEAKS, EVENING GROSBEAKS, NORTHERN SHRIKES, RUFFED GROUSE, SNOW BUNTINGS everywhere. On Sunday there was a RED-SHOULDERED HAWK sitting on a telephone pole three miles west of Aitkin on highway 210. Warren Nelson
