Bonnie,
A few years back (I believe it was Hawk Mt.) I remember somebody did a study on the habitat overlap of RT and GH. If memory serves me right the article mentioned this exact situation where GHs will actually takeover RT nests. Hawk Mt may have something on their website.
Hope this helps,
Keith Rutter
Silver Spring
Project On Government Oversight
www.pogo.org
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From: Bonnie and John Ott <>
Sent: Saturday, March 17, 2007 8:07 AM
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Subject: [MDOSPREY] GH owl question
I have been watching a pair of red-tails nest building behind the house for a couple weeks. It seems that their activity had tapered off (assumption). I was looking at the nest this morning and I believe there is now a Great horned owl on it. Is it possible or normal that an owl would move into a nest that hawks were in the process of building?
Bonnie Ott
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