If you have not investigated the results of Cornell's Great Backyard Bird Count (http://gbbc.birdsource.org/), Minnesota, not unexpectedly, came out on top for northern owls for all of North America.
Great Gray Owl: N. American total was 548; Minnesota, 316; next highest, 84 (Ontario) Northern Hawk Owl: N. American total was 35; Minnesota, 12; next highest, 5 (Saskatchewan) Boreal Owl: N. American total was 9; Minnesota, 2; also Manitoba, 2. Also Minnesota had third highest total for Common Redpolls, after Ontario and Alaska. We will not see another year like this for a while. Jan
