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I was birding at Rothsay WMA on Saturday morning and found my Target Species, the Short-eared Owl, at 9 AM. I used a March 19th MOU posting from J. Ellis to locate two owls hunting the fields just southwest of the intersection of Wilken 165 (270th Ave.) and Wilken 30 (150th St.). A female Northern Harrier was attacking one of the owls in midair when I first spotted it. Very exciting. The Short-ears are a new Lifer for me. Is it late enough in the season that this might be a nesting pair? What a gorgeous weekend for birding! Also added the Chesnut-collared Longspurs (in their beautiful breeding plumage) to my Life List with a stop at Felton Prairie at their traditional breeding grounds. Had 63 species for the weekend. Cheri Steinmueller Little Canada --0-1172488991-1145893266=:33261 Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit <div>I was birding at Rothsay WMA on Saturday morning and found my Target Species, the Short-eared Owl, at 9 AM. I used a March 19th MOU posting from J. Ellis to locate two owls hunting the fields just southwest of the intersection of Wilken 165 (270th Ave.) and Wilken 30 (150th St.). A female Northern Harrier was attacking one of the owls in midair when I first spotted it. Very exciting. The Short-ears are a new Lifer for me. Is it late enough in the season that this might be a nesting pair? What a gorgeous weekend for birding! Also added the Chesnut-collared Longspurs (in their beautiful breeding plumage) to my Life List with a stop at Felton Prairie at their traditional breeding grounds. Had 63 species for the weekend.</div> <div> </div> <div>Cheri Steinmueller</div> <div>Little Canada </div> --0-1172488991-1145893266=:33261--
