RE: Andrew Birch / Hawking Owl For what it is worth: In early spring in Big Bend Nat'l Park, I have seen a Great-horned Owl "hawking" bats. The owl had a nest located on a cliff ledge with young very close to a bat roost - the owl would fly out and was able to catch a bat within 50 feet and return. The bird's success rate was close to 65% on each flight. At least half a dozen bats were caught in a matter of 15 minutes or less.
Doug Buri Milbank, SD ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
