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This is to confirm that very good numbers of northern owls remained in Aitkin Co. as of Sunday evening-Monday morning. Of particular interest to me were 3 NORTHERN HAWK OWLS along CR 1. One was 100 yds NE of CR 1/Great River Rd. (Great River Rd. borders the diversion channel, which is 4 mi. N of downtown Aitkin City). The other two were 1 mi. S, and 2 mi. N of this intersection. GREAT GRAY OWLS were still plentiful along the 1.5 mile-long stretch of CR 1 north of Great River Rd., the area previously reported by Warren Nelson. I estimated 20 GGO in this area, and a total of another 20 sprinkled along the following roads: CR 1 from CR 22 northwards to Round L. on CR 29; CR 3 between US 169 and CR 29; CR 18 between US 169 and CR 5; CR 5 between CR 3 and MN 210; MN 210 between CR 5 and US 169. Also observed: 3 SHARP-TAILED GROUSE in the lek W. of CR 1, 1 mi N of Great River Rd., 6-10 ROUGH-LEGGED HAWKS along CR 1 & 29 between Aitkin City and CR 3, and AMERICAN MAGPIE along CR 5 about 2 mi S Palisade. Dennis Wiesenborn evening phone: 701-297-0981 --=====================_10267203==.ALT Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" <html> <body> This is to confirm that very good numbers of northern owls remained in Aitkin Co. as of Sunday evening-Monday morning.<br><br> Of particular interest to me were 3 <b>NORTHERN HAWK OWLS</b> along CR 1. One was 100 yds NE of CR 1/Great River Rd. (Great River Rd. borders the diversion channel, which is 4 mi. N of downtown Aitkin City). The other two were 1 mi. S, and 2 mi. N of this intersection.<br><br> <b>GREAT GRAY OWLS </b>were still plentiful along the 1.5 mile-long stretch of CR 1 north of Great River Rd., the area previously reported by Warren Nelson. I estimated 20 GGO in this area, and a total of another 20 sprinkled along the following roads: CR 1 from CR 22 northwards to Round L. on CR 29; CR 3 between US 169 and CR 29; CR 18 between US 169 and CR 5; CR 5 between CR 3 and MN 210; MN 210 between CR 5 and US 169.<br><br> Also observed: 3 <b>SHARP-TAILED GROUSE</b> in the lek W. of CR 1, 1 mi N of Great River Rd., 6-10 <b>ROUGH-LEGGED HAWKS</b> along CR 1 & 29 between Aitkin City and CR 3, and AMERICAN MAGPIE along CR 5 about 2 mi S Palisade.<br><br> Dennis Wiesenborn<br> evening phone: 701-297-0981</body> </html> --=====================_10267203==.ALT--
