I have tried two different days to see the Red morph screech owl, but it was not there or was sleeping out of sight; Given the cold weather,I wouldn't wonder that it would be down inside, out of the wind! Donna Scott Sent from my iPhone Donna Scott
On Dec 31, 2012, at 7:41 PM, Mark Chao <markc...@imt.org> wrote: > Having received Bob McGuire's kind tip during a fortuitous street encounter > not long before he posted here, I took my kids out to the East Ithaca > Recreation Way to look for the screech-owl. At 4:35 PM, we found it exactly > where Bob specified. > > First the owl was sleeping low in the cavity, with eyes barely above the lip > of the hole. Then the owl turned sideways and tilted its head back, still > sleeping. It looked uncannily like a person snoozing in the front passenger > seat of a car. > > Finally, as we gathered ourselves to leave, the owl woke up and perched in > full frontal view. For a couple of minutes its eyes conveyed a strange > inexpressive frozen glare, but then it began turning its head and looking > around, maybe watching dogs cavorting Snip > -- > > Cayugabirds-L List Info: > http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME > http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES > http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm > > ARCHIVES: > 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html > 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds > 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html > > Please submit your observations to eBird: > http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ > > -- -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
