Subject: Spotted owl capture
Date: Nov 18 20:40:24 1998
From: Ruth Taylor - rutht at seanet.com


Hi.
It would have been fascinating to see how long the Spotted Owl remained in
downtown Everett, how long it was able to capture starlings, and whatever
else it did.
I suspect that if it had been some other rare owl out of typical habitat, it
would have been left alone to figure out where to go next. Unfortunately,
it's a symbol of old growth forest, so it was probably the *political*
habitat that was the concern. Spotted owls have been killed and mutilated
and delivered to various federal agencies.
The first one I saw, thanks to a biologist friend, went to sleep on a
moss-covered limb about 25 feet from us, after letting us photograph him at
leisure. It was wonderful! This is said to be fairly typical behavior.

Ruth Taylor
Seattle
rutht at seanet.com