Short-eared Owl (Asio flammeus) by Twan Leenders
This morning Twan found six Short-eared Owls at the Chautauqua County/Jamestown Airport hanging out near a warm wet spot within all the snow (funny, the breeding Henslow’s Sparrows like the same areas!) This evening we enjoyed watching at least that many hunting for their small mammal prey. The favored hunting area on Airport Drive seems to be the best spot to watch them in flight and perch on some of the runway lights.
Read MoreEastern Screech-Owl (Megascops asio) by Scott Kruitbosch
I found this forgotten photo in my archives from several years ago of what appears to be the outline of an Eastern Screech-Owl that crashed into our glass door, despite the main door being closed right behind it, on a July night. This was all that was left and it presumably flew off, hopefully OK. The wing position makes it look like the owl saw that it was about to fly into an object and slowed down before impact, thankfully. Hundreds of millions or perhaps billions of birds die as glass strikes every year in the U.S. It doesn’t have to be a window and it can still happen despite...
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