Earlier today I was driving south on I-35 and found a Snowy Owl perched on the southbound Elkhart exit (exit 96) sign. The bird was very pale with thin barring on the underparts and a prominent white bib, and I’ve concluded from photos that it is a juvenile male. The bird eventually left the sign and landed in the field a short distance west of the interstate. It was still in the same field an hour later.
A quick stop at Saylorville produced a count of 160+ Bald Eagles on the ice, visible from Jester Park. Steve ********** Stephen J. Dinsmore Department of Natural Resource Ecology & Management Iowa State University 339 Science II Ames, IA 50011 Phone: 515-294-1348 E-mail: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Web: http://www.public.iastate.edu/~cootjr/ --- 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]
