Northern saw-whet owls breed up in mixed coniferous and deciduous forests in Canada, the northern United States, and the Rocky Mountains. Unlike many other species of owls saw-whet owls often migrate south. Each year at Hawk Ridge in Duluth, MN they band quite a few saw-whets as they migrate south in October. In fact in 1995 the banded over 1400 saw-whets at Hawk Ridge, although those numbers are not typical. This female spent a good deal of the winter at the Dodge Nature Center here in the Twin Cities. Each day for a month I would check on her and almost always find her perched in the exact same tree. A couple of times I was treated to her feeding on mouse. Each time I would have to wait for hours as she slept perched on top of her prey before she would wake up to eat but it was well worth it.