Update for Sinlahekin Road - it is open and in good condition.



I just called the Sinlahekin Wildlife Area Manager about road conditions. He
said there was a road washout in May but everything is fine now and you can
drive straight through from Conconully to Loomis.



Doug Schurman

Seattle



From: tweeters-bounces at mailman1.u.washington.edu
[mailto:tweeters-bounces at mailman1.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Kathy
Andrich
Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2011 8:46 AM
To: tweet
Subject: [Tweeters] Sinlahekin Road (near Conconully) and Owls





Hi Tweeters,

The post about owls and Sinlahekin prompted me to post. Sinlahekin road
hasn't been a through road for a few years due to a washout that was never
repaired. I traveled it from Conconully to where you can detour out on Fish
Lake Road in mid June. I saw a really strange thing where Fish Lake Road
rises and overlooks the lake. In a tree overlooking one of the lakes was
two raptor carcasses. One was mostly just bones but had very impressive
talons, (I could not see the skull). The other was an owl but it was
facing away from me. My guess is based on the smooth roundness of the back
of the head that it was probably a Barred Owl, or even a Great Gray, less
likely but never know. They did not look locked together in a death battle
but then something had been feeding on one of the carcasses and could have
separated them.

Kathy
Roosting in Kent, near Lake Meridian
(chukarbird at yahoo dot com)
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