Has anyone seen the great gray today we done the area near camp ground any location more definitely
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It’s always exciting to watch a raptor hunt, especially if it’s a successful outcome. How lucky you are to have witnessed that. I hope the owl is not disturbed and stays around to continue its successful hunting.
Diann Stone Boise Depot Bench
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Cool and even more importantly I saw an e bird report that you saw a Barn Owl 🙂
On Dec 17, 2020, at 1:47 PM, Louisa Evers <elouisa603@…> wrote:
The Great Gray Owl continues at Montour (12/17) Six people saw it today (3 groups of 2 people). Beautiful. Even saw it catch and eat a vole.—
Louisa Evers
Ken Miracle
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
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
The Great Gray Owl continues at Montour (12/17) Six people saw it today (3 groups of 2 people). Beautiful. Even saw it catch and eat a vole.
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Louisa Evers
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Amazing encounter and lovely photo! I wish I could make the trip, but I live all the way over near Idaho Falls. Hoping some GGO make their way down here this Winter, too. It is my first year living here, so I am learning all of the good places to go birding 🙂
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I have skulked through the same land as Dean, twice this fall/winter no luck seeing one of these beauties.
Good luck to all this holiday season and during the CBC
Rich Rusnak, Nampa/Cascade
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Ken, it was a quarterback shot, front and center. So lucky am I.
Liz
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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
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
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.
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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