Awesome Scott. Another piece of the Boreal Owl puzzle! Great work!!!
On Thursday, July 11, 2019 at 8:00:00 AM UTC-6, Scott wrote: > Hi all, > > Just wanted to let you know that for the first time. The Boreal Owl has > been documented as a nesting species in Rocky Mountain National Park. > > On April 9th during a owl prowl for Boulder Audubon, We discovered a > vocalizing Boreal Owl. It even went into a cavity then quickly exited. > > I went back the following day to relocate the nest tree, but was > unable. Therefore, I returned that evening to refind the male > vocalizing. A shrt time later a female arrived and began to vocalize too. > > The male took his potential mate to the nest site. She late accepted it. > > The female eventually began nesting in the cavity and ended up raising > two owlets. > > I was able to monitor the nest for weeks, both day and night and > documented several prey items. > > Both owlets fledged, I was there when the first owlet fledged; they > have since moved away from the nest. > > It was quite the experience! > > The best part of the entire experience was that I assisted Ron Ryder in > the early 1990's with his study of Boreal Owls. Both Ron Ryder and Dave > Palmer documented the first ever nesting Boreal Owls in Colorado in the > late 1970's and I am continuing there research. > > If you want to see any images of the owls, go to > http://www.carriep.org/boreal-owl-research > > Best, > > Scott Rashid > Estes Park > > --- > This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. > https://www.avast.com/antivirus > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Colorado Birds" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/cobirds/b1fe4ff8-5e4d-41be-8425-1170c6f3b2ae%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
