While driving down Highway 61 today (Friday, Feb. 17), going to the Sax-Zim bog to look for a Hawk Owl, my sharp-eyed birding friend Gordon Chastain from Indiana spotted a Northern Hawk Owl in a tree along the side of the road. The bird was in a birch tree overlooking the road side, on the north side of the road, at about mile marker 66, just a bit north-east from the Little Marais river. We walked along the road and had quite a good look at it, despite the subzero temperature and wind chills.
No Hawk Owls were found by us in the bog today. We did see a Rough-legged Hawk along Stone Lake Rd, and some snow buntings along County Rd 7 and other places. Bruce Stahly Grand Marais
