Today easily ranks as on of the best days of birding I've had anywhere in the world. My WINGS group and I left Duluth this morning and spent much of the day between Duluth and Two Harbors. We saw a total of SEVEN Boreal Owls -- equal to the total number of Boreal Owls I've seen during daylight hours during the rest of my life! Four of these birds were actively hunting, and one was had just caught a vole. Being able to watch these birds hunting during the day easily ranks as one of my best birding experiences. To anyone considering a trip to the the North Shore of Lake Superior -- COME NOW.
I've uploaded photos of each of the owls to my Flickr page. All are entered with exact coordinates into eBird, except for two that we saw along Old Hwy 61 east of Lakeland Ave (about 3/4 of mile east of there). If you pull up a current map of sightings from eBird, you'lll see the red markers for current sightings. Honestly, I would not spend too much time worrying about going to birds that others have found. With one exceptional, all of these were birds that we just happend onto. The area east of Alseth Road and west of Knife River on Scenic 61 was particularly good with three Boreals (Jim Lind had another on Old N. Shore Road -- which we were not able to refind). Yesterday was also Chris Wood eBird & Neotropical Birds Project Leader Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, New York http://ebird.org http://neotropical.birds.cornell.edu Senior Leader, WINGS Birding Tours http://wingsbirds.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
