[MDOsprey] Fw: Here come the Saw-whets!!
Tom and Anna Dougherty (tomannadoc@earthlink.net)
Sat, 9 Oct 1999 10:32:15 -0400
Interesting, ...from
Tom Dougherty
----- Original Message -----
From: eric hynes <sawwhet28@HOTMAIL.COM>
To: <VA-BIRD@LIST.AUDUBON.ORG>
Sent: Saturday, October 09, 1999 10:27 AM
Subject: Here come the Saw-whets!!
> Hi Folks:
>
> I received an email from my friend Todd Bauman who is banding N. Saw-whet
> Owls in the Lehigh Valley of PA near Hawk Mountain Sanctuary. He had
heard
> other people were starting to get a few owls at their stations and the
> forecast was for a cold night so he opened up early this year. On
Thursday
> night they banded 29 Saw-whets!! That is almost three times greater than
> the previous one night record or one third of a good season total. We are
> still three weeks away from when their migration historically starts to
> peak! Another bander in eastern PA, Scott Weidensaul, set up in his yard
in
> what is considered marginal habitat and got 11!
>
> Last night they only got two but the weather was much warmer.
>
> That was no fluke. It appears we are in for a major invasion year. I
don't
> know if any of the folks at the Kiptopeke banding station monitor this
> listserver but someone better warn them.
>
> Good luck finding one. :-)
>
> Eric Hynes
> Naturalist
> Huntley Meadows Park
> Fairfax County, VA
>
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