An extraordinary day. I recounted the area three times and tallied 15 Snowy Owls. Working together with some friends in another car who independently saw 14. Their total included birds not on my list; i had birds not counted by them. The total number of owls in area the could be over 20.
Other species: A dozen species of waterfowl including Trumpeter swans, Pintail, Green-wing teal, Canvasback, Wigeon, Snow geese. Other raptors including Harriers, Rough-legged, Kestrel, Merlin, Cooper's hawk. Thousands of snow buntings, longspurs, and horned larks. Meadowlark sp., Map link: https://mapsengine.google.com/map/edit?mid=zri4TVghrOM8.ksWDso76PiYA Ken Vail Blooming Prairie/Owatonna ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
