The public feeders I maintain on Old Vermilion Trail are starting to attract some more winter visitors. In addition to the normal birds, redpolls are now regularly using the feeder. In addition, I found and photographed two Grey Jays / Canada Jays about one mile in on the trail about 8:30 this morning. The jays were flitting from tree top to tree top. Finally, these feeders are only a few miles from the Northern Hawk Owl which hunts near Kelly J's farm on Jean Duluth Road. I originally reported this owl back on December 27th and it seems to have established its winter territory in the farm fields around Kelly J's.
If you're in the Duluth area, take a swing through this area, and let me know what you see. Here is a map and directions to the feeders on Old Vermilion Trail. Old Vermilion Trail: http://www.365daysofbirds.com/old-vermilion-trail-forest-winter-birding-map/ One of the Canada Jays I watched this morning: https://www.flickr.com/photos/northstarnerd/16264381635/ ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
