CBC Bonus Field Trip -- Northern Minnesota in Winter

Winter Weekend February 17 - 21, 2005

The 22 members of the CBC who just completed the trip to Northern Minnesota had a grand and highly productive time. The trip was a smash success. We had a virtual clean sweep of the targeted species and a total of 48. Everybody had a lifer including Simon. One of the most satisfying aspects of the trip was that every single target species was seen very well.

Specially focused on targets seen include:

Harlequin Duck Common Goldeneye Sharp-tailed Grouse Rough-legged Hawk Gyrfalcon (only seen by the half of the group that was flying through Minneapolis) Snowy Owl Northern Hawk Owl Great Gray Owl Boreal Owl Northern Saw-whet Owl American Three-toed Woodpecker

Black-backed Woodpecker Northern Shrike Gray Jay Black-capped Chickadee Boreal Chickadee Bohemian Waxwing American Tree Sparrow Pine Grosbeak Common Redpoll Hoary Redpoll Evening Grosbeak

Stephen Harris

Total trip species list is:

John Ennis

Thanks to everybody on the trip for making this such a successful outing including co-leader Simon Thompson and local Minnesota guide Mike Hendrickson.

Stephen Harris
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