Subject: [Tweeters] How does this Snowy Owl year compare?
Date: Dec 5 20:51:10 2005
From: Eugene and Nancy Hunn - enhunn323 at comcast.net
Stewart & Tweets,
For us old timers the banner year was the winter of 1973-1974. On a day trip
to the Skagit in March of 1974 I counted 54 Snowies (which seems to indicate
that many if not most survive the winter quite well, thank you) and there
were as many as 7 at one time on the roof of Hec Edmondson Pavilion on the
UW campus plus a high count of 120+ on the Ladner BC CBC, etc. Check the CBC
records for that year. I was out of the country for the 1996-1997 flight but
it seems it was not quite as massive.
Gene Hunn
18476 47th Pl NE
Lake Forest Park, WA
enhunn323 at comcast.net\
----- Original Message -----
From: "Stewart Wechsler" <ecostewart at quidnunc.net>
To: "tweeters" <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
Sent: Monday, December 05, 2005 7:03 PM
Subject: [Tweeters] How does this Snowy Owl year compare?
> As I haven't been paying close attention for more than the last 5 or 6
> years
> or so I don't know if this is more Snowy Owls than other big Snowy Owl
> years, but it seems like one of the biggest Snowy Owl years for Washington
> State. Can others who have been following this more closely for more
> years
> tell how this year compares to other big Snowy Owl years so far?
>
> Stewart Wechsler
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