Denny Granstrand wrote, "I found an owl pellet in the Tahoma Cemetery on S. 24th Ave. in Yakima last
week that had a crawdad shell in it. Wide Hollow Creek runs along the south end of the cemetery. This is the first pellet I have found with something other than a rodent in it. From the size of the pellet, and other pellets I found near it, I think it is from a Barn Owl."

When I was a kid in Minneapolis back in the Paleolithic, I found an owl pellet that was entirely crayfish skeleton near a pond. I wondered how an owl would catch crayfish; I suppose a hungry bird learns to catch whatever is available.

Burt Guttman
The Evergreen State College
Olympia, WA 98505 guttmanb at evergreen.edu
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