Subject: Re: Barred Owl
Date: Oct 25 15:15:41 1996
From: Dennis Paulson - dpaulson at mail.ups.edu


>Dear Tweeters,
>Today our class spotted a Barred owl in our creek area here at school.
>
> Do yo know if we have any chance of the owl staying here?
>If it does how long would it stay.
>
>
> -Christina and Dakota

It would be surprising if such a bird stayed in a relatively small wooded
area for a long time, but stranger things have happened. It might depend
on whether there were enough little goodies to eat. Barred Owls will eat
almost any small animal, but I imagine it would be mostly small mammals
through the winter.

Dennis Paulson, Director phone 206-756-3798
Slater Museum of Natural History fax 206-756-3352
University of Puget Sound e-mail dpaulson at ups.edu
Tacoma, WA 98416