Our saw-whet season officially starts October 15 with our standardized 5 days/week monitoring. But we always like to do a little random sampling to see when the first birds show up. And we are glad we did!
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| Trio of Saw-whets! Photo by Steve King |
Starting on September 29th, we had a zero owl night, with no owls (of any species) heard. On October 6th banders Mike Fisher, Raina and Steve King and Julie Shaw gave a special outing to Big Chico Creek Ecological Reserve guests. Everyone was incredibly pleased with TWO saw-whet owls and a
Myotis bat, hooting Great horned owls and a trilling screech owl.
Since then:
October 8: 2 NSWO, 1 Hatch year (HY), 1 After Hatch Year (AHY)
October 11: 6 NSWO, 3 HY and 3 AHY!
It is bound to be a good season for owls!
You can join us too - check out the post below for our awesome owl outing raffle.
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