Decided to try for these birds, I just finished looking and saw three. All three were along county 13. Beau's first one was on the same pole I assume. The two others were mottled and south of this older one. I tried for Beau's second one but did not see that one. There was a northern shrike in its place though. I photographed all three birds safely from my vehicle. Off to find my clay county snowy for the year. Good BirdingMatt MecklenburgClay County Sent from my Verizon Wireless Smartphone
Beau Shroyer <[email protected]> wrote: >This morning I took my 3 oldest children (6, 5, 2 years old) to hunt for snowy owls. We found 2! The first was on Becker Co 13, 1/4 mile south of Becker Co 14. It was perched on a power pole. All three kids saw it through the window mounted spotting scope. It only took 25 minutes to find. They, and I, loved it. Then we spent two hours playing in the snow in a nearby WPA. We drove one mile from where we were playing and found another, more mottled, bird. I think it was 320th Ave. It's the second west/east road north of Bisson Lake on Hamden Slough NWR. It was on a power pole, then flew to an abandoned silo. Great fun. Total time birding was less than one hour. Talked to a coyote hunter who said he's been seeing several snowys north of Audubon, Lake Park, Hawley in the last weeks. ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
