Hi Tom! What time would you suggest for spotting the owls? Early morning/dusk?
Thanks! Natalie On Saturday, January 9, 2021 at 7:49:19 PM UTC-7 thavs1 wrote: > I had a chance to go out last Saturday, January 2, to some birding in > Louviers. Myself and two others explored the town and he DuPont open space. > It was a good day with some uncommon species for us this year. Stellar's > Jays, Bush Tits, Evening Grosbeaks and one Northern Goshawk. While > exploring along Plum Creek just along the border of the open space and > private land we observed what we thought was a Saw-whet Owl on the private > land. All in all a great day. I submitted my list to eBird along with a > couple photos of the Saw-whet. A couple days later, I received a message > from Scott Somershoe, an eBird reviewer stating that he thought the photo I > submitted was actually a Boreal Owl. I was able to send additional photos > to confirm that what I saw was actually a Boreal Owl. I was hesitant to > report this since it is such a rare bird, I didn't want to encourage others > to converge on the area and scare the bird away. But the bird was also seen > on Monday and Tuesday by another birder, but not again on Wednesday. > Scott and I tried to find the bird again on Friday but couldn't find it, > though we did find a Saw-whet Owl. > Photos here. > eBird Checklist - 2 Jan 2021 - 80131, Louviers, Douglas County, CO, US - > 29 species <https://ebird.org/checklist/S78531505> > Thomas Halverstadt | Flickr <https://www.flickr.com/photos/thavs1/> > > Tom Halverstadt, Louviers, Colorado. > -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/cobirds/88120e28-deaa-4440-8b6e-af8df25788f1n%40googlegroups.com.
