On Sat, 4 Nov 1995, Duane Palmer wrote:

> A friend and I finally had a whole day to spend at Spencer Island.
> About midafternoon we finished by walking the bike trail, off the
> Island, between it and the sewage lagoons, because we had heard of
> an owl found there. Well, I guess we found it, but what was it?

(snip)
> Barred owl?

For what it's worth, about 3 weeks ago my wife and I walked that bike
trail to Spencer Island, and saw a barred owl perched along the trail.
It sat about 15' away, and we got a nice, long look at it.

Jim Lady
Center for Quantitative Science
University of Washington
jiml at cqs.washington.edu