[mou-net] Aitkin County update

[Warren]

You have gotten some of the news from Aitkin County already but now 
.....the rest of the story.
This morning Butch Ukura and I headed out birding at about 7a.m. The 
first bird of the day was a GREAT HORNED OWL at the edge of town. We 
headed up to Aitkin County 18 and found 3 GREAT GRAY OWLS between 
Pietz's Road (320th Place) and about another 200 yards east. At times 
the three owls were very close to each other and could easily be seen in 
one view. There have been 2 SNOWY OWLS around Aitkin lately. We found 
the one owl near the junction of C.R.1 and C.R.22 about three miles 
north of Aitkin. Later this afternoon the owl was seen just to the north 
of the diversion channel bridge, a couple miles further up the road. The 
second SNOWY OWL ia being seen about 4 1/2 miles north and east Aitkin 
along hwy169/hwy 210. Other good birds seen today: 2 SHARP-TAILED 
GROUSE, 5 RUFFED GROUSE, 7 BALD EAGLES, 1 SHARP-SHINNED HAWK, 1 
ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK, 2 NORTHERN SHRIKES, 2 BLACK-BILLED MAGPIES, 1 
AMERICAN ROBIN, 20 SNOW BUNTINGS, 4 LAPLAND LONGSPURS, 20 CEDAR 
WAXWINGS, 2 NORTHEREN CARDINALS and several AMERICAN GOLDFINCHES.   
Warren Nelson

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