Northern hawk Olw & Nuthatch

[Catmendo]

Another beautiful Northern Hawk Owl and a White-breasted Nuthatch.

[buzzsaw]

Those NHO's are beautiful! Nice light in the eye.

[Jim Almquist]

Stu those are some real sweet shots. I love the tilting of the head on #2.

[Dbl]

Nicely done Stu!

[Royce Aardahl]

Looks like he's giving you the "are you crazy?" look in the second one.

[Borealhunter]

Was this owl photographed in the Sax-Zim Bog area? My name is Mike Hendrickson and I am keeping track of all Northern Hawk Owls, Great Gray Owls and Snowy Owls in Minnesota.

Thanks

[Jim Almquist]

Mike all of Stu's shots are from Canada. Welcome to Fishing Minnesota. If you don't know Mike he is a well known in the Northland in the Birding circles and the Bog is one of his hangouts as well.

[jonny_redhorse]

Welcome aboard Mike!...I see you finally made the forum!...great to have you here!....The people here can sure help with the locations of these "rarer" birds....Just a great place to spend time after one comes home from the "outings" in the wilds of the area....these guys are good with those cameras I'm here to say!....and we have fun in the process

here's a quick capture from S.Admiral from yesterday.....Hope you guys don't mind me posting em ....Mike Lentz(left)....Mike Hendrickson(center)...and a client of Mike Hendrickson on the right with the "105 howitzer"

Stan Tekiela and Mike Lentz(Buzzsaw)

[Catmendo]

Greeting's from Manitoba Mike, also known as the Keystone province!

This winter, it seems like there's been an over abundance of NHO's in my region. (Not that there could ever be to many,LOL)

The Snowy have always frequented the region and this winter they are everywhere!

I have yet to stumble upon or locate any Great Grey's, hopefully in time this status will change!

Stu...

"I forgot to thank you all for your kind comments"!

[buzzsaw]

Hey Mike, good to meet you yesterday! Yo do a fine job on your blogs and keeping all of us up to date with whats going on around the state birdwise. I as well as Stan appreciated you giving us info as to what was where yesterday. Hopefully we will run into again soon.

[jonny_redhorse]

Wow Stu!....those northern hawk owl images are sweet for sure!.....kudos!

[finnbay]

Looks like just about everyone's been very busy! Good shots, Stu!

[MARINERMAGNUM]

Wow,that client of Mike's looks familiar. Was his name "Mo"??

[buzzsaw]

Wow,that client of Mike's looks familiar. Was his name "Mo"??

yes, that was Mo! he was from Iowa I believe. Nice guy too!

[JayinMN]

Sweet shots Stu. You must have some real good birding up there!

[Steve Foss]

Ken and I ran into Mo and Mrs. Mo when we were up on Tuesday. Cool folks.

[MARINERMAGNUM]

Ken and I ran into Mo and Mrs. Mo when we were up on Tuesday. Cool folks.

Boy that's weird! Mo bought our previous house. He lives about 2 miles from me!

[Steve Foss]

The older we get, the smaller the world gets.

[Catmendo]

Sweet shots Stu. You must have some real good birding up there!

Thanks Jay! I guess if the truth be told, there's great photo opps, everywhere we walk on this tiny planet we call home. Manitoba is just another wonderful place to explore and enjoy.

Please have a look at the work of Robert R. Taylor. He's a local Winnipeger and is recognized both nationally and international for his award winning nature photography. There's no doubt in my mind (and many others) that Roberts photographic genius on Great Grey's

could be the best ever presented for the world to see.

[Sandmannd]

Great pictures of that owl.