>From: donb at rational.com[SMTP:donb at rational.com]
>Of course, most birders also love the city life. If something as unusual
>and obvious as a snowy owl is around, there are also a lot more non-birding
>eyes to notice the event than out in some random field or beach. So, this
>distribution might well be at least partially an artifact of the distribution
>of potential viewers.
>
>Then again, perhaps it isn't :)

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The complete absence of Snowy Owl reports from Bellevue and other
Eastside communities would indicate *something* to me. Perhaps SNOW
prefer the coast? Perhaps they prefer urban to suburban? Certainly
there are enough eyes out here, so it isn't that they weren't seen.


== Michael Hobbs
== Redmond WA
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