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Bringing St. Louis, Missouri, friends John and Nancy Solodar north with us, we joined Jo and Steve Blanich for a fabulous day of owling on Saturday, January 15. We spotted 76 Great Gray Owls (GGOW) and 13 Northern Hawk Owls between the hours of 11:30 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. We figured we had a total of 62 original GGOW sightings after subtracting birds seen on previously traveled sections of roads. The sightings occurred mainly on Aitkin CR-5 and CR-18, with a number also seen on MN-169 and Pietz Road. Over 40% of the sightings occurred between 4:00 and 5:30 p.m. when the owls seemed to be all over. It was pretty incredible! We saw no Rough-legged Hawks, 5 Northern Shrikes, very few Snow Buntings, no Pine or Evening Grosbeaks, and fair number of Common Redpolls here and there. On Sunday morning we saw a flock of 50 Bohemian Waxwings in the park at Crosby. T & E -- Tom & Elizabeth Bell 5868 Pioneer Road South Saint Paul Park MN 55071 651 459-4150 --NextPart_Webmail_9m3u9jl4l_24185_1105995520_0 Content-Type: text/html Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit <html><body> <DIV><FONT size=3>Bringing St. Louis, Missouri, friends John and Nancy Solodar north with us, we joined Jo and Steve Blanich for a fabulous day of owling on Saturday, January 15. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3>We spotted 76 Great Gray Owls (GGOW) and 13 Northern Hawk Owls between the hours of 11:30 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. We figured we had a total of 62 original GGOW sightings after subtracting birds seen on previously traveled sections of roads. The sightings occurred mainly on Aitkin CR-5 and CR-18, with a number also seen on MN-169 and Pietz Road. Over 40% of the sightings occurred between 4:00 and 5:30 p.m. when the owls seemed to be all over. It was pretty incredible! We saw no Rough-legged Hawks, 5 Northern Shrikes, very few Snow Buntings, no Pine or Evening Grosbeaks, and fair number of Common Redpolls here and there.</DIV> <DIV> <P>On Sunday morning we saw a flock of 50 Bohemian Waxwings in the park at Crosby. </P> <P> </P> <P>T & E</P></FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV class=signature id=signature>--<BR>Tom & Elizabeth Bell <BR>5868 Pioneer Road South <BR>Saint Paul Park MN 55071 <BR>651 459-4150</DIV></body></html> --NextPart_Webmail_9m3u9jl4l_24185_1105995520_0--
