From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Mon May 19 10:24:47 2003 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h4JHMqa2025197 for <[[email protected]]>; Mon, 19 May 2003 10:22:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pintail.mail.pas.earthlink.net (pintail.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.122]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h4JHM6fF025154 for <[[email protected]]>; Mon, 19 May 2003 10:22:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from user-38lc0p1.dialup.mindspring.com ([209.86.3.33] helo=birdnutz.com) by pintail.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 19HoKr-0001n2-00 for [[email protected]]; Mon, 19 May 2003 10:22:06 -0700 Date: Mon, 19 May 2003 10:23:13 -0700 Subject: Re: [SBB] Short-Eared Owl Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v551) From: Les Chibana <[[email protected]]> To: South Bay Birders <[[email protected]]> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: <[[email protected]]> Message-Id: <[[email protected]]> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.551) X-BeenThere: [[email protected]] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2+ Precedence: list List-Id: South Bay Birding List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Errors-To: south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Andrea & Chuck, You may have seen a Northern Harrier. They area bigger than Burrowing Owls and an adult male is lighter in color. Short-eared Owls are the same color or darker than some Burrowing Owls. They often fly like moths with stiff-winged flapping and a bouncey flight. Also, these owls have probably left the area by now, having migrated north and inland for the breeding season. Harriers are present year-round. The hovering while hunting behavior you described does match a harrier. Short-eared Owls hunt at the same altitude as harriers but usually don't hover. Les --- Les Chibana BirdNUTZ(tm) - Ornigasmic Birding em <[[email protected]]> web ph 650-949-4335 fx 650-949-4137 snailmail: SR2 Box 335, La Honda CA 94020 On Monday, May 19, 2003, at 08:03 AM, Andrea Vedanayagam wrote: > Last night we saw what appeared to be the SHORT EARED OWL just off of > Crittenden Lane. The owl was hunting over the hill between the > amphitheater parking lot and the vacant office buildings (off of > Shoreline road, behind the kite flying area.) > > We saw 2 BURROWING OWLS too. The Short-Eared Owl was definitely > bigger and lighter in colour. But, we could not get definite > colouration due to the fading light. It was hovering and at one point > swooped down for prey. Then it flew away with the prey in its legs. > Then it came back and began hunting again. It almost gave us the > impression that it had a nest somewhere. > > Has anybody else seen this bird lately? > > Andrea and Chuck _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. south-bay-birds mailing list ([[email protected]]) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://www.plaidworks.com/mailman/options/south-bay-birds/south-bay-birds-archive%40plaidworks.com This email sent to [[email protected]]