At 09:24 AM 11/13/96 -0800, you wrote:
>OK, I'll volunteer to be the Snowy Owl record keeper. It'll be an
>interesting experiment in on-line data collection and display.

>
>Kelly Cassidy
>
>NEW REPORT 3 DEC DAMON PT. 1600hrs

I met a couple of birders leaving they reported 7 snowy in a group in the
middle of the point. i went out and found 3. it was about 1600 and the birds
seen to be moving about. a flying bird displacing a perched individual.
watched the perched bird slice so went over to check it's dropping. normal
color and consistency for a healthy bird.


the storm hit late on the 3RD. next too much wind to go out. on the 5th did
not spot the owls but observed an interaction between a imm. peregrine, a
big falcon (female) and a female bufflehead, herring gull, and female harrier.

the series of events were: falcon was perched on a root wad and the
bufflehead took off the water to the north about 300 yds from the peregrine.
i am between the 2 birds. the
peregrine immediately took off flying overhead and caught the duck in the
air by overtaking it in flight. no stoop straight on flight capture. at
this point a herring gull took after the peregrine+duck and forced the hawk
to drop it's prey. the duck was dead as it fell directly to the water. the
h. gull followed the duck down and retrived it.

the prergrine flew over to the shore and perched on some driftwood where
upon the harrier took over and harassed the peregrine to the point it took
off with the harrier in full pursuit flying out sight.

bad day at damon pt. whl