[birding] soaring owl

[Steve Seibel]

Hi all-- back on the 20th of October I saw a Short-eared owl soaring like a
hawk for many minutes in the late afternoon at the Prairie Overlook at
Finley NWR.  The wingspan was just a little shorter than that of the male
Northern Harrier that was interacting with it at times. I've seen this
species hunt in the late afternoon before but have never witnessed such a
long period of uninterrupted soaring flight in this or any other owl-- it
was clearly climbing in thermal updrafts.  Its meandering flight was
conducted at a wide variety of altitudes ranging from many hundreds of feet
in the air to just 10-20 feet above the ground.

Steve Seibel, Corvallis
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