>The owl was banded last Wed. and I saw it Thusday AM and PM, so I think it
>is wrong to assume banding may have caused it to leave, (if it has).

As I mentioned earlier, it was there yesterday (Monday) evening, so this
is really a philisophical discussion - very tweeters-like!

Though it was *bleeping* flighty!

OK, allow me to roil the waters a bit more. I'd presume that one
reason for radioing it would be to attempt to track that amount of
turf it occupies and its foraging behavior within that area.

The person who told me it had been banded also told me they'd
fed it because it was underweight.

Any comments on whether or not that might affect data gathered
by monitoring it?

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