When he drove from Roseville to Aitkin County recently, Don Snow had the bird-watching experience of a lifetime: He counted more than 20 great gray owls along the way, 19 more than Snow had seen his ...

It was well north of 3 a.m. when the soft hooting of a distant great horned owl pulled me from the gentle arms of Morpheus, that mythological god of sleep and dreams. In the heat and stillness of the ...