Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 18:36:06 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Joe and Karen Coleman Subject: Possible Injury to Snowy Owl MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Several of us who were watching the snowy owl late this afternoon (Wed., = 12/13) at the intersection of New Design Road and Montvale Road observed = the owl catch a mouse and then fly into the barbwire which borders the = road at that spot. While the owl lost a couple of feathers on the wire, = dropped the mouse, landed on the ground and seemed a bit disoriented for = a few minutes, it did fly back to its perch on the telephone pole and = seemed to be okay. However, everyone may want to keep an eye on it to = make sure it was not seriously injured. Joe Coleman near Bluemont, VA 540-554-2542 or jandkcoleman@erols.com ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================