While out guiding a friend around Sax-Zim Bog today, we had some very fun sightings! The highlight was a beautiful NORTHERN HAWK OWL (photos to come later). While observing that beautiful & slender owl, we got to see it preen its wings, and even triangulate a few times (rocking/positioning its head back and forth). We witnessed a total of 3 NORTHERN SHRIKES between our visiting time of 7:30am and 12:30pm. Other highlights include 5 COMMON REDPOLLS, 3 PILEATED WOODPECKERS, 1 GRAY JAY, several BLUE JAYS, 1 RUFFED GROUSE and a few handfulls of cute BLACK-CAPPED CHICKADEES flitting around throughout the bog, despite the cold temperatures. It was a very fun day to be out, and the sunrise this morning within the bog lit up all of snow-covered tree edges. These edges of the trees glowed a cotton-candy pink against the lavender-blue skies. Quite a site to see :)
Good birding, Erik Bruhnke Duluth, MN NATURALLY AVIAN - Bird photography and guided bird tours www.pbase.com/birdfedr [email protected] ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
