[NatureNS] Barred Owl

From: "Heather Drope" <heather.drope@ns.sympatico.ca>
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Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2008 08:35:55 -0400
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Hello , my friend Dianne from Wentworth Station, Cumb.Co. was in for a 
visit yesterday and she mentioned a Barred owl that she has seen 
hanging around her home (she had lunch while watching it go up and 
down a branch on the far side of her house) and the house parent at the 
International Hostel three properties down has woken up in the morning, 
looked out her kitchen window to experience the owl on a branch very 
close to the house.
Dianne does a lot of hiking and skiiing up on the mountain trails above 
her house and this time she was taking her dog for a walk. Something 
made her look up while in a woodsy part of the walk and the B.owl was 
right above her. She said it then did move off a bit. She continued her 
loop and on the way back, in that same spot, came apon a freshly killed 
rabbit with the head missing. Also nearby on a fallen branch, there was 
blood too.
She had to carry her dog out of there as the dog wanted lunch too. That 
was a magnet for the fox terrier and later that night the dog came home 
with the kill. 
What I think was interesting was the missing head, thinking back to the 
photograph that some of us looked at that had bones and stuff in it. Are 
Barred owls always taking the head first? 
In anycase Dianne will try and watch for nesting spots for the Barred owl 
and will report it back to me if she spots it. Her late husband participated 
in the first Breeding Bird Survey and she is aware of the importance of 
the sightings.Heather Drope in Halifax

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