Subject: Re: Saw-whet Migration?
Date: Oct 27 03:39:36 1995
From: Don Baccus - donb at Rational.COM


Michael Price:
>Someone who frequently travels the Fraser Valley at night this time of the
>year says there seems to be the usual abrupt increase in the numbers of
>small owls in the headlights and perched on the side of the thoroughfare
>that he's seen in years previous. This is also about the time that the
>first Northern Saw-whet Owls (NSWO) start showing up at the usual winter
>roosts at the Reifel Refuge.

There was a note in "BIRDBAND" that 80 Saw-whets were banded on one
night at Cape May recently - apparently an un-heard of number.

So, perhaps this is a big, big little owl year throughout the country,
though two data points do not make a trend!

- Don Baccus, Portland OR <donb at rational.com>