During the years I have been birding I have looked at many knotholes and cavities in trees and thought "there is a good place for a Screech Owl to be sitting." This morning as I was birding on Kents Ridge Road I stopped to look for sparrows in an overgrown field. While scanning the trees at the edge of the field I thought "Boy that sure looks like an owl in that hole. Hey, that is a screech owl! Sure enough, there was a gray morph Eastern Screech Owl sitting in the hole. Later, when Laverne went with me to see the owl it was still sitting in the entrance. As I opened the truck door to get a camera it awakened and appeared to take the down elevator into the cavity. It just dropped out of sight into the hole. When I returned home form birding this morning there were 2 Red-tailed Hawks crcling above our dvieway at treetop level. One was much smaller than the other. They were soaring close together. I watched them move on together to the next ridge to the north. Tom & Laverne Hunter ____________________________________________________________________________________ Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/category.php?category=shopping ************************************************* BRISTOL BIRDS NET LIST Bristol Birds Net Photo Gallery located at: http://photos.yahoo.com/ph/jwcoffeyy/album?.dir=/efd5 Be sure and visit the Bristol Bird Club website at: http://bristolbirdclub.org This is a regional birding list sponsored by the Bristol Bird Club to facilitate communications between birders and bird clubs of Southwest Virginia and Northeast Tennessee. -------------------------------------------------- You are subscribed to Bristol-Birds. To post to this mailing list, simply send an email to: bristol-birds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe, send an email to bristol-birds-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the one word 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field. -------------------------------------------------- Wallace Coffey, Moderator wallace@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (423)764-****