Same thing seen on Monday, about 5 folks gathered in the field perhaps 15 feet from the bird. As I arrived another fellow got out of his car and walked across the field to take pictures. the owl got tired of this audience and flew across the field to a pole near me. The people left the field and followed to the pole.
Fortunately the owl tolerates people quite well. However these folks were trespassing, they were standing on the owls hunting ground and they were too close. Later when these folks were gone and the field remained empty the owl returned to that spot and hunted the ground around the irrigation equipment. Those folks looking for good pictures possibly missed some great ones by interfering with the owls hunting grounds, amidst the many rules of conduct they broke. Sent from my iPad > On Feb 6, 2014, at 2:52 PM, Bill Stjern <norskes...@comcast.net> wrote: > > The snowy owl near Hogan and 180 street in Dakota county was still being > seen on Tuesday, Februay 4. It had been hunting from a perch on a piece of > irrigation equiptment but was frightened off by several photographers who got > out of there cars and starting walking through the snowy field to get closer > to the owl. > > Peg Stjern > > ---- > Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net > Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
