Hello,
This is the" BEST STORY"this year sofar. And this had to be one hungry Owl
!!!!!!!

Ruth Sullivan
Tacoma
godwit at worldnet.att.net
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> From: Anna Coles <acoles at u.washington.edu>
> To: tweeters at u.washington.edu
> Subject: Re: Tweeters (fwd)
> Date: Wednesday, January 12, 2000 5:48 PM
>
> Here is the update to the owl story. --Anna Coles, Seattle.
> (P.S. I think I forgot to say--maybe it was in the first report--the
farm
> is in the vicinity of McMinnville, Oregon. The woman who sent the report
> to the plants listserv has begun the process of joining Tweeters.)
>
> Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 16:16:06 -0800
> As an update, she says that she sees the
> owl mostly between 9:30 and 10:30 every morning. Yesterday she had a
> stand-off with him. She said that he is so used to seeing her now, that
he
> isn't afraid of her anymore. She threw a stick at him to get him to "be
> afraid". He is still eating her chickens, and she has called the County
> Trapper, and he can't do anything. Today she was going to call the OSU
> Extension Service, and try to figure out what else to do. The radio talk
> shows aren't keeping him away anymore. I suggested a fan with some
> streamers at the door of the barn. It's an open ended barn tho', so it
may
> not work, but could buy her some time to try and get some more info.
Above
> all, she says that she will not harm the owl, or let anyone hurt it.