Oh, I hope you guys got a photo of that Screech Owl... Please post it!
Patti
Moretown

On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 6:59 PM, Susan Elliott <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Just as we despaired of seeing Lapland Longspurs, we found four in a group
> of 18 Horned Larks on Gage Road in Addison this afternoon. Also on Gage Road
> were one Northern Harrier, one Rough-legged Hawk, and one Red-tailed Hawk,
> and six Eastern Bluebirds.
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> Seventy-two more Horned Larks, sans longspurs, were on Nortontown Road.
> Also on Nortontown, two Peregrine Falcons were hunting pigeons.
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> The highlight of the day, however, was not the object of our quest, the
> longspurs, but an Eastern Screech-Owl sunning itself in the entrance hole of
> a Wood Duck box along Basin Harbor Road in Ferrisburgh.
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> The other highlight of the day was a shrike wannabe, a Northern
> Mockingbird, on Lake St. in Bridport.
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> In all we spotted 24 Red-tailed Hawks (various locations), seven
> Rough-legged Hawks (various locations, including one dark morph), and one
> Barred Owl (Leicester).
>
> All sightings have been dutifully reported to eBird.
>
> Sue and Marv Elliott, Sue Wetmore, Tracey Busony
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