Subject: [Tweeters] Another Snowy Owl on Capital Hill - 10:15am
Date: Nov 14 12:13:46 2012
From: Kevin Purcell - kevinpurcell at pobox.com
Found again in a Sitka Spruce at 1150 on the east side of an alley between 16th Ave E and 17th Ave E south of E Republican St. Behond a garage with a red door.
Image of location (and tiny white dot pointed out by arrow is the Snowy :-).
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/32640163/IMG_3359.JPG
Getting some occasional minor harassment from a pair of crows but mostly it's quiet.
The crows were also giving a male juvi Cooper's Hawk they rousted from 14th to a redwood on 16th some hassle too.
On Nov 14, 2012, at 10:29 AM, Doug Schurman wrote:
> From my office I heard a bunch of crows calling out. After about a minute I figured I better check what they were going on since it would be quite embarrassing to get a tweeters email of an owl outside my office without knowing about it.
>
> Sure enough about 30 feet up a fir tree was a Snowy Owl (on John St between 16th & 17th). It flew about 2 blocks North and perched again. This time I decided some people from the office might be interested. Four of us went back to the location that I had last seen it and it was gone. We listened for a while and heard more crows and re-found it again on a house roof at the SW corner of Republican and 17th. After more harassment it flew off in a SW direction.
>
> It is likely still in the same general area if anyone tries to find it.
>
> Very exciting times!
Two in two days!
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