>I would like to address a parallel thread--are we as tweeters placing so
>"public" an owl in danger by interferring with its ability to hunt? I
>ask this as I have heard, I hope incorrectly, that the Great Gray owl
>seen by great numbers of people up in Vancouver DIED, apparently having
>starved to death.

Being the "finder" of said bird, I can confirm its death. Those that saw
the remains were all pretty certain that it had starved to death.

As far as I know, there are no overlapping reports on the Great Grey Owls in
Vancouver that can substantiate there being two birds. It seems probable
that he bird was moving between Burnaby and North Vancouver. The latest
GGOW report from maple Ridge has not been confirmed.

Didn't I read on Tweeters that the bird in question had been tagged with a
radio transmitter. So, why can't we find it?

Eric Greenwood
Vancouver, B.C.
egreenw at helix.net