Hi.

The owl was hunting the outer Yaquina Bay (central Oregon Coast), the area around the Newport jetties, and to a lessor extent the dunes of South Beach State Park (it mostly just roosted here). The gulls present were mostly Western Gulls with some Glaucous-winged mixed in....and it seemed to like big grebes, Western and Clark. I found many carcasses with lobed feet, especially when it was roosting in the dunes... one was id'ed as Clark but most were not collected or studied to that degree. I also found plenty of mangled gulls at its roosts.... and I saw gull flocks shrieking away from it numerous times... it almost always went on a hunt just after sunset which gave just enough light to follow it but dark enough to play tricks on your eyes at times.... especially since it would usually stop at "scouting" points before it actually went for the kill.

Cindy Ashy

--- On Sun, 2/19/12, Joseph Evenson <jrevenson at comcast.net> wrote:

> From: Joseph Evenson <jrevenson at comcast.net>
> Subject: [Tweeters] Re: Regarding Snowy Owl Pellets
> To: tweeters at u.washington.edu
> Date: Sunday, February 19, 2012, 2:38 PM
> Interesting observations Cindy-
>
> What species of grebes and gulls was the SNOW selecting?
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Joe Evenson
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