Earlier this winter I reported a minimum of 6 Snowy Owls in the
Holland Marsh/Bradford and South Keswick area on the basis of solid
evidence. This post is not intended to say anything different.
However, I also reported a possible 7th owl at the end of Bathurst. In
addition, I did not ever see a very white owl that was once or twice
reported south of Ravenshoe rd. Some of the question marks I then
considered, as a conjecture, to be related to owl movement between the
main areas. I can now report that I saw what was likely a stage of
such movement when, after I had spotted three owls in the Ravenshoe
area, I saw two fly south at a relatively high altitude (much higher
than when they move from one spot to another within visible distances)
and found that two of the owls seen very shortly before that had now
disappeared from where they were. The owls in flight, when they were
well south of the Ravenshoe rd fields, kept to east of the river as
they flew south. Ron Fleming's report yesterday of the first two weeks
in March for this area suggests three owls may still have been present
in each of the two main locations. This movement may have a relation
to that.
Hendrik Hart
19094 Centre street
Mount Albert, Ontario
Canada L0G 1M0
Ph: 905-473-9896
Email: [email protected]
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music. -Sergei Rachmaninov
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