Can anyone help me on this Great Gray Owl report I read on the Minn. Northwest Birding Hotline? "Pat Rice reported a GREAT GRAY OWL found by Dale Yerger during a CBC inBeltrami County, but outside the count circle! The bird was seen along CR 118."
I looked on my map software and google maps and I cannot find CR 118 for Beltrami County and what CBC are we talking about? Also I would like to know how far from the nearest intersection from a known highway, town or paved county road was the owl found - thanks. When I decided to create these owl maps I never knew how much time it took to place a pin on a Google map for a owl species. The most frustrating part of this is the vague directions I see on the internet when people report a Great Gray Owl, Northern Hawk Owl and Snowy Owl sighting on the listservs. For example: If I posted on the internet " I saw a Boreal Owl on Highway 53 in St. Louis County " Would that be good directions? Since Highway 53 pretty much goes from Duluth to International Falls. So when you spot any of the above owls I mentioned, please try to give more detail directions so I can add them to the maps and also to other birders who maybe interested in trying to relocate that owl species. Take a mileage from where the owl is perched and go to the nearest intersection and mark it or the nearest town Thanks Mike Hendrickson Duluth, Minnesota Website: http://webpages.charter.net/mmhendrickson/ Blog: http://colderbythelakebirding.blogspot.com/ ---- Join or Leave mou-net:http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives:http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
