[birding] Llewellyn Burrowing Owl

[carolyn paynter]

A late posting...on Thursday, February 27, I went out Llewellyn and saw three men standing on the ground and one bright yellow airplane just taking off.  I pulled in around the sawhorses and had an informative conversation with the ground crew for the spray plane.  They knew the bird, said they hadn't seen it for a week, and they had noticed it last winter as well.  It is hard to know about the timing of the bird's departure...human disturbance or hormonal yearnings...or maybe the bird is just standing somewhere else local now.

 

I miss it.

 

Carolyn Paynter
 
> Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2009 07:41:42 -0800
> From: Will.Wright at monroe.k12.or.us
> To: list at midvalleybirding.org; joel.geier at peak.org
> Subject: Re: [birding] Llewellyn Burrowing Owl
> CC: 
> 
> I have made it a practice to drive home on Llewellyn just to check on the Burrowing Owl. Last week the farm
> workers spent most of the week on construction activities at the end of the runway next to the owl's hangout.
> When I drove by (between 4 & 5 pm) he was absent, and there was usually a human present. This week there seems to be no construction activity and I still do not see the owl. Perhaps they caused him to depart. Let me know what you know. Thanks----Will
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