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 =========================================================== Mailing List For Buchanan County Bird Club website: www.bcbirdclub.org Archives: //www.freelists.org/archives/bcbirdclub =========================================================== Administrative contact: donc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ===========================================================