The snowy owl was still present at 3:45 this afternoon off to the east side of 570th just north of E29 on a slight hummock in the field...very easy to spot, and the other birders stopped alongside the road helped in locating it as well! A quick trip out to Ada Hayden on the way home yielded the usual suspects (Canada Geese, Mallards) as well as a lone female American Wigeon mixed in with the ducks.
I was also able to start my day off with an owl, as I was woken up by a great horned owl calling from a tree not more than 40 yards outside my bedroom window at 5:45 this morning (this is not the first time this has happened either)... Kevin T. Murphy Ames -- Kevin T. Murphy Graduate Assistant Department of Natural Resource Ecology & Management 43 Science II Building Iowa State University Ames, IA 50010 [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]
