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Index of Subjects You're right. I'm wrong. :-[ Sleep deprivation. See you Sunday, I'm coming on your field trip. ------------------- Randy Lauff wrote: > Brian... > > It seems late to have a juvenile Saw-whet at this time of year, if by > juvenile you mean plumaged as in > http://people.stfx.ca/rlauff/research/fairmont/22July7.jpg. What was > it that you could see that led you to assigning it this age? > > Randy > 2008/11/25 Brian Dalzell aythya@nb.sympatico.ca > <mailto:aythya@nb.sympatico.ca> > > ... > To make a long story short, I made 14 stops between 8:13 pm and > midnight and heard (and also saw!) a total of 15+ NORTHERN > SAW-WHET OWLS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I was like a crack addict searching > for my next hit of meth. It just kept getting better and better. > At two stops I didn't hear anything, but a three stops I had two > Saw-whets each! I was actually beginning to lose track of how > many I had heard/seen. Never get tired of hearing those little > guys. Usually, within 30 seconds of playing my tape, I had a > response. > > > > ...One juvenile bird allowed me to come with 15 feet while it > intently watched the ground below for meadow voles. It was only > eight feet up. ... > Brian Dalzell > Bancroft Point > Grand Manan, NB. > > > _________________________________ > RF Lauff > Way in the boonies of > Antigonish County, NS.
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