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Subject: Sax-Zim Bog Bird Festival - Last week
From: Michael Hendrickson <mlhendrickson(AT)yahoo.com>
Date: 23 Jan 2010 5:53pm

Hello:

This will be the last week of registrations for the 3rd Annual Sax-Zim Bog
Winter Bird Festival being held on Feb 12-14th in Meadowlands, MN.  Since my
last posting Great Gray Owls look like they headed back in the woods but in the
last week or so Great Gray Owls seem to make a rebound and have been seen a few
times in the Sax-Zim Bog! Thank goodness.

The feeders in the Sax-Zim Bog are still attracting Boreal Chickadees, Pine
Grosbeaks, Common Redpolls and other winter residents.  Black-backed Woodpeckers
 are being seen on most days along with Northern Hawk Owls!  In Duluth there are
 still good places to view Bohemian Waxwings and the big news is the number of
gull species being seen.  Good numbers of Iceland Gulls in various ages,
Thayer's Gulls, Glaucous Gulls and Great Black-backed Gulls.  Also are Barrow's
Goldeneye is still being seen among a large raft of Common Goldeneyes.  In
Aitkin County good numbers of Northern Hawk Owls and the big draw will be the
Sharp-tailed Grouse displaying on their lek!

There is a lot to be found and seen during the festival.

To read more about the festival go here:  http://moumn.org/sax-zim/

There will be bird field trips going to Sax-Zim Bog, Aitkin County and Duluth.
There will also be a winter photo workshop led by Mark "Sparky" Stensaas and
Shawn Zierman.  Here birders will learn about winter photography and visit a
private feeder to photograph winter finches.  Along with the workshop and
birding field trips there will also be speakers, vendors and much more!

Thanks for your time!

Mike

Mike Hendrickson
Duluth, Minnesota
Website: http://webpages.charter.net/mmhendrickson/
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