** Harold Ferguson writes -

> Early spring is apparently here in eastern WA, at least for the raptors.
> The last two nights, the flammulated owls have been busy conversing in
> my yard. The first night around 12 midnight, last night about 9pm. On
> Monday, on my raptor routes three pairs of red-tails were observed
> copulating! It was a very spring like sunny day!

Flammies in February??? They do not appear in the BC sections of the southern Okanangan
Valley until the first week of May! Do you have some magical bit of habitat which keeps this
most migratory of our owl species around during the winter, Howard, rather than heading back
from Guatemala as they should be now?

- Jack

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Jack Bowling
Prince George, BC
jbowling at direct.ca