Hi all,
I just found this comment in a very recent eBird report from Linn
County.
Burrowing Owl
1 Saw local wintering one along [____] laying on the ground,
flew around a few times, last saw on intersection between
[____]
and [____]. Got at least six feet away from it! Have iphone
photos.
I've deleted the road names in this posting, but they're still there
in
the eBird report.
The specific location of this owl, though known to some local birders,
has not been posted either on the MidValley list or on OBOL. So
presumably this iPhone-toting individual obtained coordinates from
eBird
reports which included photos of the distinctive culvert that the owl
has been using.
Whoever is the eBird reviewer for Linn County, could you please see if
there is a way to scrub this report of these details, and contact the
observer for a discussion of harassment?
For the folks who posted the previous eBird reports, I'm sure you
weren't intending to contribute to this kind of harassment, but
unfortunately experience shows that often happens with Burrowing
Owls in
the Willamette Valley.
It would be helpful to remove any photos that show the culvert. Also
please consider shifting your reports to a more generic location (I
guess eBird calls them "hotspots") to make it less likely that other
similarly minded individuals will go out there and cause further
disruption for this owl.
Good birding,
Joel
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Joel Geier
Camp Adair area north of Corvallis
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