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[mike]

Reporting of an owl roosting on line is grounds for banishment from the
ebirds community. (I don't know why) That is probably why the paper was
slow in picking up the story.

There was a great horned owl that roosted in the same area in the
rambles for  over a month last year, a couple of other owls were close
by. There was a very rare boreal owl that was roosting near Tavern on
the Green a couple years ago.  Great info about the owls,  David.


 The snowy owl may have been officially "reported" by the Rockland
Audubon Society, but this lovely bird has been on this side of the
Hudson for a month now. Not only does it hunt rodents (rats, mice,
squirrels, rabbits) but it also hunts other birds. In fact, it killed a
coot (the only one I have seen for awhile in the area) and left the head
on the pier. It's an amazing and beautiful bird. This bird tends to
roost and hunt in the day . I've been watching it for hours several
times a week and try to find it once a day.

Actually, there was a snowy owl here about three years ago and it hung
around for about a week. This one has been around for a month now. What
is amazing is that it came down during such a warm winter.


On 1/28/07 2:29 PM, "Richard Clifford" <RichardClifford at earthlink.net>
wrote:



Alan Wells, a member of the Rockland Audubon Society and the husband of
Della Wells, said the last time a snowy owl was seen in Rockland was at
least 15 years ago.






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