Lars Benson and I took a half day looking for winter finches, etc, in
Douglas and found a single Pine Grosbeak at Rose City in a mature White
Cedar in a feeder yard just N of the main crossroad in town. The bird sat,
sang, and took off about 15-20 seconds after we saw it. We saw NO Red
Crossbills, NO Evening Grosbeaks and Lars heard WWCrossbills over the
cemetary on the west edge of Alexandria N of the fairgrounds. We had
CRedpolls in a few places and a flock of LLongspurs mixed with HLarks just
N of Osakis. We saw an adult Northern Goshawk perched in a tree along
Fairfield Creek Road, had a good look at a Barred Owl near the Spruce Hill
Lutheran Church, and had two Kestrels and three NShrikes in the county.
I've looked two other weekends in the past four for winter birds and have
had None of the Crossbills or Grosbeaks before today. Please post if you
find any in Douglas.
John Ellis-St. Paul
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