Ken, it was a quarterback shot, front and center. So lucky am I.
Liz
Daily Archives: December 16, 2020
Re: Great Gray Owl
WOW … great look and photo. I always seem to find them screened by branches etc. 🙂
On Dec 16, 2020, at 5:37 PM, Elizabeth Medes <liz.medes@…> wrote:
Jeff, I wish!This has to be a one-off due to the heavy fog near the Payette today. I couldn’t believe my eyes, and got so excited I’ll probably need to get my car interior detailed!I had zero connectivity, in auto route trolling mode, and was watching the hunters leave, the red tails playing, and the fog roll in when I found it. Crikey, what a big owl! Roosting about 3 ft off the ground. I didn’t linger, no longer than the time to get 3 photos. I made a u-turn after the hunters had left and it was still there, preening!To be as quasi precise as a sensitive species sighting is allowed, this was in Gem County, Montour WMA, about .5 mile or so from the Payette River. Someone tell me if I need to do anything else, or less than.Liz MedesGem County ID<GGOW Montour WMA 12162020.JPG>
Ken Miracle
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208-570-2780
“Not that we are sufficient in ourselves to claim anything as coming from us, but our sufficiency is from God” 2COR 3:5
chukar28@…
208-570-2780
“Not that we are sufficient in ourselves to claim anything as coming from us, but our sufficiency is from God” 2COR 3:5
Re: Great Gray Owl
Great sighting. I’ve seen them several times but have struck out the last two years where, what I thought to be, it was a sure thing. A public island of land surrounded by private land in Valley County.
Re: Great Gray Owl
Jeff, I wish!
This has to be a one-off due to the heavy fog near the Payette today. I couldn’t believe my eyes, and got so excited I’ll probably need to get my car interior detailed!
I had zero connectivity, in auto route trolling mode, and was watching the hunters leave, the red tails playing, and the fog roll in when I found it. Crikey, what a big owl! Roosting about 3 ft off the ground. I didn’t linger, no longer than the time to get 3 photos. I made a u-turn after the hunters had left and it was still there, preening!
To be as quasi precise as a sensitive species sighting is allowed, this was in Gem County, Montour WMA, about .5 mile or so from the Payette River. Someone tell me if I need to do anything else, or less than.
Liz Medes
Gem County ID
Re: Great Gray Owl
Dang Liz,
That needs to get into the data base this winter! 🙂
Jeff
Great Gray Owl
Seen today, Dec 16,
4:00 p.m., Montour WMA, near campground. Photos to follow.
4:00 p.m., Montour WMA, near campground. Photos to follow.
Winter finch irruption
If you follow this link: https://www.birdingwire.com/releases/4d268101-a122-4ffe-9b69-6a88cbd9fccf, you’ll find a short article on this winter’s southward movement of northern finches of all sorts.
Tom McCabe, Boise