My friends Travis and Alyssa and I went to Sax-zim bog yesterday and had a wonderful time. We saw two great gray owls on Admiral Road moving up and down the road and one on Overton road later in the day. A magpie was spotted early on by Alyssa but I never really got a good look at it.. We saw a flock of twenty or so pine siskins on 133 near Cotton. We saw redpoles on several occasions including at the Welcome center. At the feeders on CR 444 we saw purple finch, evening grosbeaks and redpoles. At the feeders on Admiral road we saw plenty of Gray Jays and black capped chickadees but never saw any boreals and we came back there one more time. We saw no northern hawk owls and at the welcome center we were told that there had only been one spotted recently. We didn’t see any crossbills or Pine Grosbeaks which was a disappointment to me. I later saw a posting that the the crossbills had been seen in Meadowlands. I have some photos on my flickr account . Here is the link https://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
