Greetings all,

I hope you're all enjoying the snow - this old graying former Wisconsinite
sure is!  Go birding before all the beautiful white scenery disappears.

Maryland Public Television's Outdoors Maryland is developing a story piece
on Great Horned Owls in Maryland.  They hope to obtain video from throughout
the nesting season to capture the breeding effort from egg to fledging.  The
first filming date that they have scheduled is 22 February.  I know of a few
GHOW nests from past years that I will quickly revisit to determine if they
are active this year.  To assist MPT, if anyone knows of active GHOW nests
that you would be willing to pass on, we would appreciate it.  To make the
piece more interesting, we would like to have nests in a variety of
locations to add to the possible visual diversity of the story.  If you have
locations to pass on, please contact me off the list so that we do not
indiscriminately put the subject owls at risk from over visitation.

By the way, if you do know of active nests, whether you pass them to me or
not, please make certain that you enter your observations on them into the
Breeding Bird Atlas, now in this its final year.

On behalf of MPT, thank you for your assistance with this effort!

Best regards all,

David F. Brinker
Central Region Ecologist
Natural Heritage Program
Maryland Department of Natural Resources
1200 Frederick Rd.
Catonsville, Maryland  21228

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