FreeLists / tn-bird / [TN-Bird] Re: Surprising Great Horned Owls

[OLCOOT1@xxxxxxx]

Great Horned Owls are busy feeding young and are attracted to the short  
grass roadsides at this time of the year. Feeding multiple young makes for many 
 
trips during the long nights thus making them both more visible and puts them 
in  harms way far more often than hunting for one.
 
I've already seen one road kill and had a friend that drives a tractor  
trailer hitting one last Friday night coming in from Nashville. There is not  
much 
we can do as they just do their best when feeding young. Once locked onto a  
target they do not seem to notice fast on coming traffic. If you see one 
perched  along a road, blinking your lights might (just might) prevent a 
collision.  
Occasionally, I've had them look my way when I've done so, but only  
occasionally.
 
By checking likely nests over the last few months, I've learned  that Great 
Horned Owls are far more prevalent than I ever thought  in our area. 
Unfortunately the pair that nested on my two acres had left two  years ago, 
bowing to 
surrounding development but now I have Crows and Cooper's  Hawk nests, so you 
win some and you loose some.  
Good Birding  !!!

Jeff R. Wilson / TLBA
6298 Memphis-Arlington Road
Bartlett, TN  38135

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