The bird was sitting on the fence in the back of a make shift maintenance yard that is on your left immediately after you pull into big egg marsh which is at the end of cross bay boulevard. The bird was easily viewed from the road. I have no idea if the bird will stay in the maintenance yard if the cranes that are parked there are being active but I would think it’s highly likely that it won’t. However there’s tons of suitable habitat in the area as lots of construction is going on and there are posts set up all over the place. The bird was last seen hunting out in the marsh as it was dark. There’s plenty of public parking and as long as the birders stay out of the way of the construction vehicles I don’t see any reason at all not to go and try for this bird. The baseball fields are still open to the public and while the owl was there there were probably 40 cars parked there for the kids softball game. This is not a closed off or restricted area in case that wasn’t clear. Again I was not the original finder I’m just getting the word out
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