Snowy Owl

I'm a member of the Minnesota Ornithological Union (MOU) listserv. Someone spotted a Snowy Owl at "the airport" (MSP) about two days ago. Here's an interesting post about birding near airports in a post 9-11 environment:

The Snowy Owl initially reported by Deanne and relocated by Diane was again located at the airport today. I spotted the owl at 3:00 PM flying over the North half of the airport.

I also talked to two Aiport Police in which one had a degree in ornithology, said the owl had spent yesterday on building C. I asked about security and having many birders descending on the airport, and they said that as long as people obeyed the signs and stayed out of restricted areas things would be fine (stay more than 6 feet from fence etc.).

They said with binoculars they would probably run your plates as they did mine, and if people were pointing high power scopes and cameras into the airport they would probably ask for ID and run it through the system. So if you are not doing any thing wrong and have not done any thing wrong you have nothing to worry about. In fact I think they will be use full in finding the bird if it stays there.

At 4:00 PM the Owl was again relocated by a number of people including Diane near it's previous location, but further northwest on an orange beam.

Emphasis mine