Subject: Re: owl attack
Date: Jun 19 12:22:08 1995
From: "M. Smith" - whimbrel at u.washington.edu


On Mon, 19 Jun 1995, Tom Foote wrote:
> those books around the house. I seem to recall an anecdote about a great
> horned owl that hit a guy, wearing a coonskin cap, from behind hard
> enough to kill him..(or maybe it was Bent, or...) in any case, it must
> have been quite a surprise..

I remember someone telling me the exact same story in South Carolina in
1989. I chalked it up to 'urban legend' (though I suppose it *could*
happen).

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Michael R. Smith
Univ. of Washington, Seattle
whimbrel at u.washington.edu
http://salmo.cqs.washington.edu/~wagap/mike.html