At 08:57 PM 3/13/97 -0800, you wrote:
>Bob Russell's Snowy Owl posts have been fantastic.
>
>In one, he/you wrote:
>> I have unequivocal evidence (from
>> pellets) that the birds at Damon Point are taking some marine
>> invertebrates (definitely crab, possibly razor clams and other mollusks).
>
> Unequivocal? Any details? Isn't it possible the shellfish are part of a
>grebe's or duck's diet and end up in pellets via that route?
> Somehow I can't imagine a Snowy Owl directly "taking" a razor clam.
>--
>Scott Richardson
>northeast Seattle

I can just picture these razor-clam-taking snowy owls being written up in
the book of seldom-seen birds. "The long-snooted snowy owl (LSSO) has a
diet comprised primarily of razor clams. It sticks it long snoot through
the sand directly into the clam shell. The pellet is comprised mostly of sand."

Denny Granstrand
Yakima