Many thanks to Mark Alt for his map of Pine Country owl locations that he kindly posted at the Duluth Audubon web site. Even more for the inspiration than navigational aid, my wife and I drove up from St. Paul and looked around his route for four hours this Sunday, the 20th. We were rewarded with our first ever great gray sighting, as well as our 21st, at dusk. The last owl of the day was the proverbial frosting, a hawk owl. Most of the GGOs were seen driving toward Kerrick on State 23, and on the drive west on County 46 to Military Road to County Line and back to 23. The hawk owl was seen just east (about 2 miles) of Kerrick on County 46 as the light was fading. Although we maintained appropriate distances from the owls we were rewarded with a pretty spectacular event with #7, who swooped down not far from our car and hit a red squirrel, which it gulped down with two swallows -nice work!
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