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["Coleman" <jandkcoleman@xxxxxxxxx>]

I was asked to post the following by Bill Seebeck who does not subscribe to 
VA-Bird.  Bill and his son have been doing research on Barred Owls and their 
different calls in Loudoun County for the last four years or so.
Joe Coleman

From: wseebeck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Sent: Feb 8, 2006 7:14 AM
>To: va-bird AT freelists.org
>Cc: awseebec AT bulldog.unca.edu
>Subject: Snowy Owl still at IAD
>
>Great Morning to you!
>
>I finally got lucky enough to see the Snowy Owl at Dulles Airport this morning 
>at 6:30 AM.  I have been looking before and after work from the parking 
>garage, upper level for the last three days, without seeing him.  This morning 
>he was on the light by the post office at the end of the service road toward 
>the western north/south runway, just above the stop sign at the end of the 
>road.  Unfortunately, today I did not bring my video camera, but he was close 
>enough to see well with binoculars.  Planes were landing behind him, and I 
>tried to see him from ground level, but the light was still on and too bright. 
> Thank you for posting links to the great photos of the bird, as I only have 
>them and the memory of what I saw.  
>Good luck to you all.
>Bill Seebeck  
>Father of "Owl Boy" Alex Seebeck