At 9:30 this morning a large owl was perched on a fence post near the
roadside on highway 48. To my eye it looked just like the great grays
we saw so often last year. Large size, prominent white handlebar
"mustache, " and no visible horizontal barring on the chest, just
vertical stripes all the way down. We watched for several minutes as
the owl turned its head in various directions as heavy traffic rushed
by. I'd be confident in calling it a great gray except that my
companion, who had closer looks than I did as we drove slowly directly
past the bird, was sure that the eyes were brown, not yellow.
I hope others get better looks. The owl was on the north side of 48
across from a turf farm, east of Duclos Pt. Road.
