There has been a Rose-breasted Grosbeak, adult male, at the Lake Bemidji State Park entrance station coming to the feeders for about a week. It was seen on the Bemidji CBC on Saturday by Pat Rice and others and photographed by Mary Lou Marchand.
On Sunday, the Itasca St. Park CBC was held. Highlights included a record number of Red-breasted Nuthatches, good numbers of both Red ( many well photographed by Noel Benson) and White-winged Crossbills, a single Boreal Chickadee at a feeder on Lake Alice near the Lake Alice Bog SNA, a single White-throated Sparrow feeding on grit along Clearwater County Rd. #2 at the Mississippi River Bridge 4 miles north of the park, a few Evening Grosbeaks and two Black-backed Woodpeckers. Both counts had several mid-day hunting Barred Owls. A researcher spouse of one participant indicated that small mammal counts this winter have been a quite low numbers. Also, I have a third party report of a Great Grey Owl four miles north of Nevis in the Paul Bunyan St. Forest late last week and another road killed on St. Hi. 64 several miles south of Nevis. Doug Johnson Bemidji ---- Join or Leave mou-net:http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives:http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
