[TN-Bird] Snowy Owl Saturday 1/24/09 -- yes

The Snowy Owl in Spring Hill (Maury Co) was still present but very  
distant at midday today (1/24/09), on the west side of Highway 31,  
across from Rippavilla, south of 396/Saturn Parkway, and south of the  
red barn and gated entrance/pullout mentioned earlier.  It was only  
visible from about a 25' section of the Saturn fence, at its highest  
point above the roadway atop a somewhat treacherous and crumbly  
slope.  The bird was hundreds of meters distant, right on the skyline  
at the crest of the farthest rise, visible to the naked eye as a  
bright white dot, through binoculars as a slightly larger white dot,  
and through a scope as a rippling fluffy blob that occasionally  
turned its two pinprick eyes towards you.

Re: the multiple reports of their originally having been two owls:   
These might not be independent data, they might all be repeating the  
same primary rumor.

Bill Pulliam
Hohenwald TN
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