The last two days I been guiding a client from Maryland but the weather has been dreadful. On Saturday we headed up to Sax-Zim Bog at dawn to look for owls and other specialties of the bog but the winds and rain were terrible for viewing birds. I did manage to locate a Hoary Redpoll feeding along the Stone Lake Rd (CR 319) with a Common Redpoll. Saw several groups of Snow Buntings and lots of Bald Eagles. We then left the bog and worked our way to Two Harbors and located some White-winged Crossbills in the park located on 2nd street. While birding our way down Scenic Highway 61 we found a 2nd cycle Glaucous Gull flying north along the shore at the Talmadge River.
Today we birded Lake County and Stoney River Road to the Whyte Rd to FR106 back to Hwy 1. We found a lot of small groups of White-winged Crossbills and Gray Jays and one heard only Boreal Chickadee. The weather was not very good with strong winds from the west with sleet, rain, mist, fog and snow! We then headed back to Sax-Zim Bog where we found a Northern Shrike, Ruffed Grouse, small flocks of redpolls, gray Jays, Rough-legged Hawks and a Bald Eagles. Monday will be the last day of our three days together and we are heading up to Sax-Zim Bog and then stick around Duluth. The weather looks better for birding on Monday versus the last two days we had to deal with. Mike Hendrickson Duluth, Minnesota MikeHendricksonGuiding.com Sax-ZimBog.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
