Hi Tweets, my sisters and I tried to find the Chelan Northern Hawk Owl
yesterday but didn't have any luck. There were a few other birders there -
one said he had been there for an hour and that others had arrived earlier
in the day and had given up. Apparently it was seen on Saturday? I think we
left around 2:00. Darn. But it was a beautiful day to be in snowy Chelan!
Amy

On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 11:50 AM, Joe Meredith <joemmoby at u.washington.edu>wrote:

> Howdy Tweets,
>
> Thanks to everyone who has posted such helpful directions to the Northern Hawk Owl outside of Chelan, WA. My mom and I drove out yesterday and found it in the somewhat open area at about milepost 6.3 on Union Valley Road. We lurked there for around an hour and eventually the bird landed in the trees right at the roadside and gave us some amazing looks. I took a panorama photo there and posted it on flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/74737339 at N05/6787562639/
>
> If you use a GPS, I took down the coordinates: N 47?54.156' W 120?00.822'
>
> Thanks Denny for posting your pictures of the "normal" and "deflated" N. Hawk Owl! It really would blend in with the tree tops when it shrank down into the smaller shape. When we first saw the bird it was perched about 1/3 to 1/2 of a mile from the road in a pine. It occasionally would drop from the perch and appear a minute or two later in another perch. These relocations seemed to coincide with Raven fly overs, but we weren't sure if that made sense... I think your photos make it pretty clear that the Hawk Owl didn't want to be noticed by those ravens!!
>
>
> ~Joe Meredith
>
> Seattle, WA
>
>
> I searched along Union Valley Road north of Chelan for an hour for the
> Northern Hawk-Owl but couldn't find it. I have always felt the best way to
> find a rare bird is to find the people looking at it. The next best way is
> to talk to the people who saw it an hour earlier. Thank you to the two
> birders I talked to who said it had moved two miles up the road, to
> milepost 6.3. There is a pullout on the west side of the road at that spot.
>
> Something interesting happened while I was watching the owl. A raven flew
> over and the owl seemed to deflate its feathers. It was just a narrow tube
> of an owl. I put two photos of the Northern Hawk-Owl in the new photos
> folder on my website, one showing the deflated posture. I am interested to
> know if others have seen birds do this. Here is the link to the photos:
>
> http://www.granstrand.net/gallery/newphotos
>
> Denny Granstrand
>
>
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