[TN-Bird] GH Owl update

From: K Dean EDWARDS <kde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Tennessee Birds <tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 10:51:58 -0500 (EST)
(west Knox County, TN)

Amber and I went out into the woods behind our home just before 
sunset on Saturday (24 Jan 2004) to take a look for the Great 
Horned Owls.  We missed seeing the owl flush from the nest as we
approached and didn't see them at first but sat down on a log to 
see if they would turn up.  We spotted a few feathers blowing in 
the breeze around the edge of the nest just as Wallace had said 
to look for.  We couldn't detect any movement from the nest.

Soon Amber spotted one of the adult owls sitting in the top of
a small pine across the new "clearing".  A brief aside here...
the owl nest is on the edge of what used to be a thicket of tall
pines about four houses up the ridge from ours.  The Southern
Pine Beetles had killed many of the pines by the time we moved
in.  Then, last May, a tornado came up the side of the ridge
and leveled everything in a ~200ft-wide swath.  (Fortunately
only moderate damage to the houses it hit.  Though impressive
to see part of a grill that has been thrown OVER a house.)  The 
nest is in one of the only large pines remaining.

Anyway, the owl made a couple of approaches but would not go 
back to the nest with us there so we left.

Turns out that you can just see the nest from our neighbors' 
yard.  This morning (Mon, 26 Jan) before leaving for work, I
saw one of the owls sitting tight on the nest.  Suspicions are
that they are incubating eggs.  

Still no return visits from the squealers.

We will keep you posted.

On other notes, we had another visit by the Palm Warbler on 
Sunday.  Also, another Spring Cankerworm Moth and a camera-shy
Tortricidae-looking moth.  After having defeated the racoons
for almost a year, Friday night they drug off the suet basket 
we had nailed to a hickory tree.  The Brown Creepers and Yellow-
bellied Sapsuckers were quite upset.


Dean and Amber Edwards
Knoxville, TN
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