[TN-Bird] Snowy Owl present, cooperative 1/17/09

From: Bill Pulliam <bb551@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: TN-birds <tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2009 11:05:59 -0600
The Snowy Owl at Spring Hill was allowing small crowd of observers to  
have leisurely looks at it this morning.  Thanks to Bill Rogers and  
Damien Simbeck for making sure the word of this got out promptly!

David Kirschke and I were present pre-dawn at the Cracker Barrel  
parking lot.  The bird appeared about 6:40 a.m. perched atop a sign  
on the interchange; probably the same sign Bill Rogers first found it  
on yesterday.  It spent the next several hours in the immediate  
vicinity of the interchange, sometimes on signs, sometimes on the  
grass, sometimes on the little limestone roadcuts where the GM plant  
truck entrance (continuation of Saturn Parkway) passes under Highway  
31.  The bird was still present and being watched and photographed  
when I left at about 9:45 a.m.  Some locals indicated that the bird  
has been there for a while.

PLEASE be EXTREMELY CAREFUL viewing this bird because of its  
situation in the middle of a freeway interchange!  The highways are  
not interstates, so safe off-road parking is allowed.  But they are  
divided 4-lanes with 55 mph speed limits.  This morning the viewing  
was happening best by parking alongside highway 31 just south of the  
overpass for the entrance ramp from Saturn Parkway.  The bird was  
seen on both sides of the road.  There are safe turnarounds on  
highway 31 just north and just south of the intersection, so you  
should not need to cross the highway on foot.

Good luck, and be safe!

Bill Pulliam
Hohenwald TN
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