FreeLists / va-bird / [va-bird] Re: Snowy Owl at Dulles Airport

[Kestrel923@xxxxxxx]

You wrote:
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
That's precisely where my one previous sighting of the snowy owl was, before 
it flew and was lost to sight behind the long cargo carrier building across 
the street from the parking garage.

Also today, between 4:30-5:00 PM, three birders saw the snowy owl again: For 
two (Ilse Jorgensen and Sid Lissner <sp.?>) this was a lifer view. For me it 
was a wonderful confirmation that the visiting bird is alive and well -- was in 
fact observed on the ground eating, FAR out on a grassy area near the little 
roofed bulletin board and the small green box to its right. Eventually the owl 
flew gradually, with a couple of stops, to one of the tall light towers 
directly behind the post office building. I'll let the other observers supply 
the 
detailed runway numbers they jotted down as coordinates.

Leni Friedman
Arlington