I ran an errand to Willmar this afternoon (4:30) and so I checked to see if the adult male Snowy was out by the MN 23 and Business 71 interchange (Mills Ford/Toyota area). It was sitting on a light pole on an exit ramp. Steve Gardner had said he had seen it in the morning a couple miles to the west at Co. Rd. 5. Curiosity got the best of me since that is a long distance, so I drove out to Co. Rd. 5 and found a second male Snowy Owl perched on a pole. Based on the markings, these are the two owls I saw interact with each other last week.
Pictures are on my eBird checklists. Mills Ford/Toyota SNOW: http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S21406095 Co. Rd. 5 SNOW: http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S21406045 I checked on the Atwater/Bushmills Snowy this afternoon but couldn't find it. I may have been there too early in the day. I did find, strangely, a Meadowlark south of Bushmills. http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S21403503 Josh Wallestad http://www.aboywhocriedheron.com ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
