Subject: Walla Walla County 6/22-23
Date: Jun 23 17:47:11 2002
From: Kelly Cassidy - lostriver at completebbs.com


Is this the first (recent) documented evidence of confirmed breeding by GG
Owls in the Washington Blues?

Kelly Cassidy
Pullman

> After a good night's sleep, we woke up at sunrise and tried for the
> towhees again. We didn't get them in the morning, however we did locate
the
> owlet which we heard the previous night. But was it a Great Horned as we
> suspected? Nope, two GREAT GRAY OWLETS sitting on a short, dead tree, one
of
> them calling loudly! After observing, photographing, and videotaping them
for
> quite a long while, we again headed up the road. Our next highlight was a
> calling NORTHERN PYGMY-OWL being mobbed by a large number of birds. On our
>
> Charlie Wright
> Birdking88 at aol.com
> Sumner, WA
>