[Bristol-Birds] road kill barred owl, screech owl
- From: "Wallace Coffey" <jwcoffey@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bristol-birds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2006 02:44:34 -0400
Today (15 June) while birding in Shady Valley, TN, Ron Harrington and I
found a road kill Barred Owl at mile marker 6 of TN Rt. 133 which is in the
Beaverdam Stream gorge of the Cherokee National Forest, Johnson County.
In mid-afternoon after Ron had returned me to my car at Shelley's on U.S.
421, I found one of the first road kill Eastern Screech Owls I have seen in
a long time. It was a brown morph and was in the north bound lane towards
Bristol in the vicinity of The Center, where the Bristol Bird Club has had
its annual banquet for the past couple of years. This is in Sullivan
County.
Road kill screech owls were a common occurrence in this region throughout
the 1960's, 1970's and 1980's but seem to have diminished greatly in the
past 10 years. I think I have previously expressed on this list that I am
concerned this is a reflection of the declining population of the species in
our region.
Let's go birding..
Wallace Coffey
Bristol, TN
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