[Tweeters] Short-eared Owl

[Trileigh Tucker via Tweeters]

Wow! Ray, I bet I’m not the only Tweeter who’d like to know what equipment you were using. Congratulations on a fine set of observations.

Cheers,
Trileigh


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From: RW Hamlyn via Tweeters <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
Date: Wednesday, January 15, 2025 at 11:14 AM
To: tweeters at u.washington.edu <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
Subject: [Tweeters] Short-eared Owl

Fortunately for us in Washington, Short-eared Owls are regular winter visitors to the Skagit Valley.  Once you find where they are hunting, they are easy to observe, because they do hunt during daylight, usually early morning or late afternoon, and they hunt in open fields.  What’s harder is to see them actually catching and dining on their prey, as their prey is small and they usually swallow it quickly, and usually out of sight in the tall grass, or behind a bush, etc.  Fortunately, after many attempts over years, I finally got the hunt, capture, dining sequence for one Shorty!  The link to the video of that event link is:  https://youtu.be/M3s3Yaxb3QQ.


Ray Hamlyn
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