I was heading home from a run into town this evening so I decided to follow-up on Wolf's last locate where he had viewed the owl. At 9 PM in hazy moonlight my wife Linda and my mom got to see the snowy owl sitting on top of a utility pole on the east side of the road.
As we left it remained perched. It is roosted on the 5th pole north (third one north of the Kingsbury farm) of the intersection of 570th avenue and 200th street in Milford township Story county. Mike Mike Meetz, Nevada On Jan 6, 2012, at 6:39 PM, Oesterreich, Wolfgang [NLAE] wrote: > After driving around the general area for a bit and running into other > searchers, I finally relocated the Snowy Owl at 1705. The juvenile male was > perched on top on a nesting box, located along Mike Meetz's (the original > discoverer) south property line, running west from 580th Ave. After a couple > of minutes he flew off to the northwest and I drove on with hopes of finding > him again. Came across another vehicle along 200th St that was scoping out a > piece of white plastic far out in a field, near where he was spotted this > morning. (I had checked out the same piece earlier!) They decided to head > north while I drove south along 570th Ave. Within a minute I had spotted the > owl again and watched him catch something in the west field, then fly to the > top of a tall utility pole. Fortunately, another vehicle was behind me and > they got to see the owl, too. (I had alerted them to the first location, but > he had flown before their arrival.) He took flight a few more times and > returned to either the same pole or one further south. Both poles were near > the "One Lane Bridge" sign. By the time I left it was too dark to see much. > > Good luck to future "hunters". > > Wolf > > Wolfgang Oesterreich > Ames > --- > Please contribute your sightings to our list; it is only as good as members > make it! > --- > Birding channel recommendation for FRS/GMRS radio use: > Primary selection; channel 5/0 , alternate selection; channel 6/0 > --- > This mailing list is sponsored by the Iowa Ornithologists' Union. Membership > available on-line at http://www.iowabirds.org/iou/PayDues.aspx. > ----- > You are currently subscribed to ia-bird as: [email protected] --- Please contribute your sightings to our list; it is only as good as members make it! --- Birding channel recommendation for FRS/GMRS radio use: Primary selection; channel 5/0 , alternate selection; channel 6/0 --- This mailing list is sponsored by the Iowa Ornithologists' Union. Membership available on-line at http://www.iowabirds.org/iou/PayDues.aspx. ----- You are currently subscribed to ia-bird as: [email protected]
