>From the editor of a photographer's newsletter who stumbled across
my web site...

Carol Leigh, "Picture This!":
> As a raptor person, you may be interested to know we had a pair of great
> horned owls (juveniles) use our pool last summer! Startled the heck out of
> us when we looked out the back window to see two eerily silhouetted owls as
> they kind of shuffled around the edge. Then they'd fly across the pool,
> dipping their bodies just slightly in the water. A few days later I saw what
> looked like a cat's head sticking out of the water at the shallow end . . .
> One of the owls was crouched down on a step, sitting in about 3 or 4 inches
> of water, just sitting there, looking around. It was so cool! A few days
> later I saw them playing in the sprinklers on the golf course. It gets hot
> here in Palm Springs in the summer, and they sure knew what to do about it!
> We should be seeing more young owls in the next 30 days if their pattern
> holds to form . . .

I have never heard of owls in swimming pools before!

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