On Tue, 25 Mar 1997, Michael Price wrote:

> Only time I ever saw a Great Horned Owl actually take prey was one dropping
> on a large ginger tom strolling along a riverbank beneath some pines. Just
> dropped on it like a be-taloned brick. The tom was dead before its chin hit
> the ground.

Michael et al--

A Biologist I knew, who taught at Lewis & Clark College in Portland,
reported a nesting pair of GHO's he observed over a period of
years from his office window..he said that about once a week during
nesting one or the other of the owls would bring in a cat..no
particulars on that..I assume they were the smaller feral
cats in that heavily wooded area..

Tom