My wife and I birded from Red wing to Rochester on Saturday Jan 5. The hig= hlight was locating the snowy owl that had been seen last week by several f= olks. Directions to the spot where we found it are as follows:=0A =0AFrom = Hwy 42 you want to head north on county rd 14. (There is a sign for Immacu= late Conception church at this intersection, it is visible from both direct= ions) We went down county 14 for about 1/4 mile, just a little north of 58= 0th St. The field to the west is full of hay bails wrapped in white plasti= c, we parked next to one with the message "I love Wubsy" spray painted on i= t. From this spot we looked east across a corn field where the owl was on = the ground near a patch of snow, about 50m off cty rd 14. There is a farm = road through the field, the owl was south of this road (this road makes a t= riangle with county 14 and Hwy 42). We found the owl at 12:30pm. It was on= ly visible from county rd 14.=0A =0Aother birds sighted :=0Adozens of bald = eagles on the ice from Lake Pepin down to Kellogg.=0A5 common mergansers at= Hok-si-la park=0Ahundreds of unidentifiable gulls (no scope)=0A3 American = Kestrels along Hwy 42=0A =0ABest,=0APaul Smithson=0ALee & Rose Warner Natur= e Center, Washington County=0A=0A__________________________________________= ________=0ADo You Yahoo!?=0ATired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam p= rotection around =0Ahttp://mail.yahoo.com
