During tonight's telecast of the Mariner's game, Dave Neihaus explained why
there are no birds in Safeco Field. He said he had been told that Woodland
Park Zoo had supplied Barn Owls to Safeco Field and that they are nesting
up high somewhere right now, and the Barn Owl's motto is "If it flies, its
dead."

I checked with the BNA account (#1, 1992---wow, I didn't realize this
project is already 7 years old) and confirmed that the Barn Owl's diet
rarely includes birds, and then only small birds which roost in the open,
such as starlings, blackbirds, marsh wrens.

Could this be true that the Zoo actually supplied Barn Owls to keep the
rock doves and gulls out of Safeco Field?

Dan Logen
Stanwood