Lydia:

Living not far from you up here in n. Lake Stevens I'd bet on a Barred Owl,
several of which seem to be in the general area. We have had several such
incidents as yours here in the last two months involving a Barred and
Steller's Jays, including one just a few days ago.

Scott Atkinson
Lake Stevens
mail to: scottatkinson at hotmail.com


>From: GizaTheCat at aol.com
>Reply-To: GizaTheCat at aol.com
>To: tweeters at u.washington.edu
>Subject: What Kind Of Owl Was It?
>Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 08:41:35 EDT
>
>Around 4:30 this morning the sound of hundreds of angry crows jostled me
>from
>the last of of my night's sleep. The noise was so jarring and close I
>threw
>on some clothing and shoes and headed out on the trail through the heavily
>wooded "back yard" to see what the heck was going on.
>
>Low flying crows were all over the woods, swooping in and out of the alders
>and cottonwoods. Toward the end of the trail I finally saw what had set
>the
>neighborhood crows off on their noisy "caw-fest".
>
>It was a huge owl. The owl was about the size of the crows, but chunkier.
>It's color was light brown with lots of white. It didn't seem to have eye
>discs or "ears". Was this a snowy owl? Great Horned? It wasn't a Barn
>Owl
>- I've seen them many times before.
>
>At 5:37 AM all is now calm in this corner of Snohomish County.
>
>Lydia Gaebe Bishop
>Somewhere near Lake Cassidy, Snohomish County, WA


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