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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_000F_01CD392D.F46C9240 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable With a night of light winds forecast, I did my owl survey on the Salmon = River Road, CBRM on Sunday night, with friend Bill Bussey and his = granddaughter Avery. The night was perfectly still and listening conditions at most stops = were excellent. With no moon in the sky the owls were not doing much = calling, but we had 4 Saw-whet Owls and 6 Barreds, enough to keep us = happy as the night went on. One of the best aspects of the night was having 11-year-old Avery along. = She is very keen on owls and did an excellent job of following all the = rules of owling etiquette - keeping feet quiet on the gravel road, etc. = etc. Best of all, she could pick out the owl calls, which many people = can't when they first begin owling. I demonstrated the various owl = calls for her in the car on the drive there, and explained that the = Saw-whet call was similar to the calls of peepers but with a more = regular rhythm that we had to listen for, through the peeper chorus. = With this minimal direction, she was able to pick out the Saw-whet calls = and asked about Barred calls she heard before I had pointed them out. = We didn't have an owl fly in, which would have made the night perfect, = but even so she told us that it was the best night of her life. With = any luck, an owler is born!=20 Cheers, Susann Myers ------=_NextPart_000_000F_01CD392D.F46C9240 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META content=3D"text/html; charset=3Diso-8859-1" = http-equiv=3DContent-Type> <META name=3DGENERATOR content=3D"MSHTML 8.00.6001.19222"> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=3D#ffffff> <DIV><FONT size=3D2 face=3DArial>With a night of light winds forecast, I = did my owl=20 survey on the Salmon River Road, CBRM on Sunday night, with friend = Bill=20 Bussey and his granddaughter Avery.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2 face=3DArial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2 face=3DArial>The night was perfectly still and = listening=20 conditions at most stops were excellent. With no moon in the sky = the owls=20 were not doing much calling, but we had 4 Saw-whet Owls and 6 Barreds, = enough to=20 keep us happy as the night went on.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2 face=3DArial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2 face=3DArial>One of the best aspects of the night = was having=20 11-year-old Avery along. She is very keen on owls and did an = excellent job=20 of following all the rules of owling etiquette - keeping feet quiet on = the=20 gravel road, etc. etc. Best of all, she could pick = out the owl=20 calls, which many people can't when they first begin owling. =20 I demonstrated the various owl calls for her in the car on the = drive=20 there, and explained that the Saw-whet call was similar to=20 the calls of peepers but with a more regular rhythm that we had to = listen=20 for, through the peeper chorus. With this minimal direction, she = was able=20 to pick out the Saw-whet calls and asked about Barred calls = she heard=20 before I had pointed them out. We didn't have an owl fly in, which = would=20 have made the night perfect, but even so she told us that it = was the=20 best night of her life. With any luck, an owler is=20 born! </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2 face=3DArial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2 face=3DArial>Cheers,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2 face=3DArial>Susann Myers</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2 face=3DArial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2 face=3DArial></FONT> </DIV></BODY></HTML> ------=_NextPart_000_000F_01CD392D.F46C9240--
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