It has been reported the past couple days on Facebook that there are 2 Snowy Owls in Ramsey, sometimes in close proximity to each other.
On Tue, 2014-01-07 at 13:25 -0600, Ron Taube wrote: > I spent the morning trying to relocate the snowy owl off of 147th and > Armstrong in Ramsey that I saw on Sunday. After forty five minutes of > looking around the cell tower and areas adjacent to that I drove east across > Armstrong and near a mall where there is a Gym and pizza place. On the > corner of Sunwood Drive and Zeolite street sat the Snowy preening himself on > a light pole next to the street sign and sitting comfortably in the sun. I > stayed with him for over an hour then he flew south and sat in the snow > overlooking highway 10 then ten minutes later he flew back to a pole right > across the street from where I first saw him. I took many photos. Was trying > to get a shot of him flying and just as he took off my cell phone rang and it > was enough to distract me from a good shot. This was the first time he flew > so after he returned to the other pole I watched him another ten to fifteen > minutes then I took off. As I was turning left onto Armstrong I saw some > birders that were watching the Cell tower so I drove over and told them about > the snowy on the pole and they followed me back to it. We were watching it > for a few minutes then a young woman saw us and asked me how long the bird > had been there and I said well over an hour maybe two and she said that she > had just seen one atop of the cell tower almost a mile away. So maybe we have > two Snowy’s. I drove back there again and it wasn’t there but I suppose it is > possible that there are two. I uploaded three new photos at > http://www.flickr.com/photos/ronsthoughts/ > Ron Taube Coon Rapids > ---- > Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net > Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
