Today, Bill Stauffer and I birded in the county in the morning and Steve and Jo Blanich and I birded in the afternoon covering different areas and came up with 130 GREAT GRAY OWLS, 7 NORTHERN HAWK OWLS, 1 GREAT HORNED OWL , 2 ROUGH-LEGGED HAWKS, 6 NORTHERN SHRIKES, 5 GRAY JAYS, 2 RUFFED GROUSE. The biggest numbers of owls were found along C.R.4 (several birds), C.R. 5 (21 in a 3 mile stretch just south of the junction with highway 210 and several in the Kimberly area), Gun Lake Road and township 380 ( 22 birds in a 4 mile stretch), 17 Great Gray Owls and 3 Northern Hawk Owls along a township road just west off of C.R.16 south of Tamarack) , C.R.1 (12 birds) and several others along different roads mostly all south of the Palisade area. We didn't find any Great Gray Owls along C.R.18 but that might be partly because we were there in the middle of the day ( 2 of the hawk owls were along C.R.18.) Warren Nelson
