John Woodhouse was kind enough to send me a video capture of
one of the Snowy Owls at the SJCR.

You can have a look at it at:
http://home.pacifier.com/~mpatters/cbc/Snowy4.jpg

>
> Hi,
>
> Barbara and I were at the South Jetty on Sunday last (12/17/00). We parked
> in Lot C and walked to the large dune on the shore of the river. As we drew
> abreast of the dune, one of two owls was about 200 yards from us (
> distances are difficult to gauge over that sort of terrain) and I managed
> to get some video of it by combining our spotting scope, at X 30, with a
> video camcorder, at a zoom setting of X10. Attached is a single frame from
> that video. The other owl was far off, perhaps at four times that distance
> and video of it was poor, although there was no doubt as to the identity of
> the species. We did not advance further than our first position for fear of
> disturbing the nearer bird. While we were watching, there was another
> couple who were also looking at the far bird, from well to the east of our
> place. In later conversation, they said that they had not seen the owl
> nearer to our viewpoint. The other couple had made their way along the
> beach from the spur road between Lot C and the end parking lot(D?).
>
> I can readily see that a single observer might be hard pressed to find all
> the owls present on a terrain such as the south beach of the river. The
> owls don't seem to move around much and could easily be concealed from view
> for long periods of time.
>
> MSeason's Greetings,
>
> Barbara and John Woodhouse
> Tillamook OR


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