Last Friday Charlie Greenman, Peter Neubeck and I did one of our owl survey routes in Aitkin Co. It is a dyslexic C shape, from 169 west on CR4, north on 5 to 210, then east on 210 to 8 in the town of McGregor. The route from the two previous months produced no northern owls. However, this time we counted a total of 60 Great Greys. The largest concentration has already been reported in a field 4 miles west on CR4. There were several in the town of McGregor, one by a closed for the season ice cream parlor. For a change of owls, go south on 5 to the large power line poles. Peaking out of a nest platform on one of the crossbars we observed a Northern Hawk Owl. Bonnie Mulligan
