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once more-- owlets/ swifts
- To: carolinabirds@duke.edu
- Subject: once more-- owlets/ swifts
- From: "Rob G" <thrush@hotmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 01:58:45 +0000
- Delivered-to: pardo@metalab.unc.edu
- Sender: carolinabirds-owner@acpub.duke.edu
Tonight ÔJuniorÕ (Barred owlet) intently watched me as I watched him
watching me watch him!; bit of a staring contest... he won. HeÕs remained
high in the same large white oak (near lamppost off brick path between
Alumni and Person Halls) for 3 days apparently doing fine under watchful
eyes of Mom and Dad, often 1 or 2 trees over. On a sad (actually,
devastating for some of us!!) note this yearÕs 3 owlets on www.owlcam.com
(webcam of a Massachusetts Barred Owl family in man-made nestbox) were taken
by a fisher at a very young stage last Saturday night while parents were out
hunting....Õnature red in tooth and clawÕ! Luckily, no fishers on UNC campus
as far as I know!!!
couple of folks emailed me inquiring about Franklin St. swifts so I
checked tonight and again got count of close to 2000 roosting in P.O.
chimney between 8:30-8:45 (time varies depending on clarity and brightness
of night sky); donÕt know if this population will last all summer.
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**Rob Gluck.......... Chapel Hill,NC.......... thrush@hotmail.com
"And on the fifth day God created birds....(days 1-4 must've been a real
drag)."
-- old Leica binocular ad
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