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Barn-owls
- To: carolinabirds@duke.edu
- Subject: Barn-owls
- From: "Frank Enders" <fkenders@hotmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 11:44:02 EDT
- Sender: carolinabirds-owner@acpub.duke.edu
I have perhaps 12 nesting pairs in nestboxes in silos in eastern NC. I have
not cleaned out the boxes for two years, and will probably clean the boxes
out this winter. I will post the approximate date, when I get organized, if
anybody wants to go with me on the good chance of seeing some roosting owls
this winter. I will try to say nothing about barn-owls until then.
Also, I will ask some landowners in Rocky Mount and Scotland Neck areas
about the possibilities of having a trip in the spring (Memorial Day) on
which more birders than my immediate family could go to see owls leave the
box and/or nestlings be banded.
I also have nestboxes in Hyde and Pamlico Counties, which may be places
where you can stand on a public road and squeak up the owls at dawn.
(And, maybe Mattamuskeet or Pungo or Alligator River or Pea Island NWR might
want to set up a few nestboxes for the public to view Barn-owls, as is done
at Forsythe and Gateway NWR in NJ and NY. About half the boxes would be
occupied in coastal areas.)
I have not asked John Wright, but when he has trips to Scotland Neck in the
spring, I would think the landowners would be as glad to see him as me, and
birders don't care who they are with when they see what they want.
I wonder whether a fee ($1 to $5) per participant might not help encourage
the landowners (especially the hunt guides, who are a money-making
enterprise, after all) to allow birders to visit. Might result in more
access, at more times. I need to ask the hunt organizers who are actually
tenants, not owners.
Frank Enders, Halifax NC. fkenders@hotmail.com
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