Ken, Tim, Liisa Mobley, and I watched the owl for a while after Ken found
it from Stewart Park. We were fortunate enough to see it take off at one
point in pursuit of a Redhead (departed at 5:09PM). Although it was
unsuccessful in this chase, it continued flying to land on a dock north of
East Shore Park, where it sat for a few minutes before flying back out onto
the ice edge at 5:18PM.
Photos here:
http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S16420320
http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S16420375
On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 8:03 PM, Dave Nutter nutter.d...@me.com wrote:
The SNOWY OWL was still present between 5:00 and 5:06pm when I scoped it
from north of Treman Marina, but it was gone by 5:35pm when I returned from
checking the lake. It was a dark, heavily barred bird, a conspicuous lump
on the ice (and a prize Luddite List bird for me - Thanks, Ken!). Maybe the
late hour was a factor, but I thought it was telling that I saw no other
birds on the entire ice shelf. Maybe they recognized this rarity as a
predator. I looked around in the dusk from 5:35 to 5:40pm but all I saw was
a fox out on the ice floes which blocked the Inlet between Jetty Woods and
the marina. The Inlet was free of ice elsewhere both upstream (south to at
least the Octopus) and down (along the white lighthouse jetty), and the red
lighthouse breakwater was an island, making it safe (from foxes, anyway)
for the 2 DOUBLE-CRESTED CORMORANTS which sat preening near the north end.
--Dave Nutter
On Jan 18, 2014, at 04:47 PM, Jay McGowan jw...@cornell.edu wrote:
A SNOWY OWL is currently on the ice off mid Stewart Park, found by Ken
Rosenberg.
Jay
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