I'll take the hot sauce, but make my serving crow-fu -- I'll still
have to eat a lot of it!
I gotta say, I'm getting a good record here --- several years back, I
id'd the park's first Western Screech-Owls.... as the park's first
N.Saw-whet Owls. At least for that one, I can blame darkness &
inexperience with the species. Such is life!

I think every one of us who was there looking at the owl [and it was
a very compliant Long-eared, allowing looks from all angles w/o
flushing for a really long time] had slight doubts but went with the
crowd & initial id.

Double kudos to Evan Houston for looking at the photos with an open mind --

With mouth full of crow-fu feathers,

Matt Bartels
Seattle, WA

>From: "Michael Hobbs" <birdmarymoor at verizon.net>
>To: "Tweeters \(E-mail\)" <TWEETERS at u.washington.edu>
>Date: Thu, 09 Apr 2009 13:31:59 -0700
>Subject: [Tweeters] Marymoor Park correction
>X-BeenThere: tweeters at u.washington.edu
>
>Anyone have some hot sauce, or a least a whole lot of ketchup? I
>need to eat some crow...
>
>The "Great Horned Owl" that we reported two weeks ago? Evan Houston
>was looking at the photos on my blog and discretely emailed Matt
>yesterday to say he thought it looked more like a LONG-EARED OWL.
>And of course he was right.
>
>All I can say in my defence is that (a) the bird looked *anything*
>but slender, and (b) I initially identified it by silhouette rear
>view. When we walked around to the front of the bird, closer, I
>think everyone had some question about the ID, but nobody got out
>their books to try to contradict my first call.
>
>Ooops. One really needs to pay attention to that niggling voice
>inside your head that you always ignore at your peril.
>
>Anyway, with today's Barred Owl, we've now had seven species of owl
>at Marymoor Park in 2007. (Matt had a previous sighting, and had
>HEARD a GHOW, at Marymoor this year, so it's still on the year list).
>
>Mea Culpa.
>
>== Michael Hobbs
>== Kirkland, WA
>== http://www.marymoor.org/birding.htm
>== http://www.marymoor.org/BirdBlog.htm
>== birdmarymoor at verizon.net
>
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