[mou-net] Aitkin County update

[Warren]

This morning I birded north of Aitkin along County Road 1 and found a 
female BLACK-BACKED WOODPECKER working on some tamaracks on the west 
side of the road about 7 & 3/10 miles north of the diversion ditch 
bridge. There were also about a dozen PINE GROSBEAKS in the same area. 
Also along C.R. 1 were three small flocks of SNOW BUNTINGS, a BALD 
EAGLE, RAVENS and a NORTHERN SHRIKE. There have been a lot of COMMON 
REDPOLLS showing up at local feeders, including mine. I received a 
report of a GREAT GRAY OWL sitting on a fence post along 360th Street 
which is east of Aitkin, between Aitkin and Rossberg (seen about 3 miles 
from town).  I have been out to look but haven't seen it yet. Hulda Lind 
reports that her YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLER is still well and she has had up 
to 12 BLACK-BILLED MAGPIES coming to her suet feeders.  Warren Nelson

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