Jim and Tweeters,
I'm an Ecology teacher at Newport High School in Bellevue. I'm always
looking for Barn Owl pellets for students to do some identification
work. If anyone knows of a cache of pellets, could you please let me
know. Thanks



Barron Stuart Levine
Ecology/Biology Teacher
Newport High School
4333 S.E. Factoria Blvd.
Bellevue.Wa. 98006

-----Original Message-----
From: Jim B [mailto:JaysonTownsend at msn.com]
Sent: Friday, May 07, 2004 12:05 PM
To: tweeters
Subject: Re: The graveyard of voles


My son has about 7 or 8 very tall fir trees clustered in his
back yard in the North End of Tacoma and this winter he showed me a spot
at the base of on of the trunks where there were at least 6 Robin sized
bird skulls and several bones. I have not been able to see a nest in
that tree but it doesn't mean there isn't one. There are several bird
feeders in his back yard and my thoughts were that he has some avian
guest one notch up the food chain to those who visit his feeders. It
seemed to be too many skulls to be chicks from a nest.

Jim Brewster
Tacoma
jaysontownsend at msn.com

<<This week at Bob Heirman park my students found a log with
dozens of skulls
and bones on it. Since a Northern Harrier is often seen here I
assume these
are regurgitated pellets from that bird. The log is in a large
area of
grass. I have not seen so many in one place before. Is this
common for
Harriers to have, as one 8th grader so eloquently put it, a puke
perch?>>




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