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;color:#1f497d">I have a route to do, an --=_e153aac3f04ebe4d1d40cfe48e8296e8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Hi Randy; Jeannie Shermerhorn and myself ran one of my routes last night...as you said it seemed like a perfect night. We had 10 Barred Owls, including three at one stop, two of which sounded like the tape...arguing? This was the route we've had over 20 Owls in the past, including GH and SawWhet, and several of the "sure" stops didn't produce. Go figure. Billy .On 05 May 2017 13:47, Randy Lauff wrote: > That route has been "one of those routes" that people tell stories about...owls on every stop, other wildlife... It's also two or even three times, come up empty. There was one new cut that I could see from roadside, but it was small. And there was regrowth in others, but not yet sufficient to house an owl nest of any sort. > > The route passes my home, and I do hear Barred Owls from the yard...twice last week for example. > > Randy > > _________________________________ > RF Lauff > Way in the boonies of > Antigonish County, NS. > > On 5 May 2017 at 11:37, Donna Crossland <dcrossland@eastlink.ca [4]> wrote: > >> Hi Randy: >> >> These were presumably unusual results for your area? Have the forests been cut down recently? Small mammal crash? Were they just "out and about" and couldn't be bothered coming in to defend the territory? Nesting failures? It's always interesting to speculate. >> >> I checked with Bernard Forsythe to see how his owl nesting activities are progressing this year. He tells me that it's hard to beat the bumper crop of barred owls from last year. He banded 39 chicks from roughly 15 nest boxes in 2016. This year, from the 7 pairs he's checked near his house, one pair has 3 eggs and the others have only two eggs. I guess it's not uncommon for them to take a break from raising the large clutches from the previous year. The chicks in his back yard (food supplemented) hatched a week ago, the others should hatch this week, he tells me. >> >> I have a route to do, and should have completed it last night, if not for a very sore throat threatening to bring me down. Now I stare at the dismal forecast and must conduct the route at very next opportunity, which may have to take place in between showers. Deadline is looming. >> >> Donna >> >> FROM: naturens-owner@chebucto.ns.ca [1] [mailto:naturens-owner@chebucto.ns.ca [2]] ON BEHALF OF Randy Lauff >> SENT: May-05-17 9:21 AM >> TO: NatureNS >> SUBJECT: [NatureNS] NOS - a great night for ambiance >> >> Last night I ran my Nocturnal Owl Survey (http://www.birdscanada.org/volunteer/atowls/ [3]) under ideal conditions (low-no wind, very bright half moon, very little run-off noise) with a student, Danny MacDonald who had not yet seen an owl in the wild. We had grouse, snipe, woodcock, porcupine and a not so distant pack of coyotes, but not a single owl. >> >> Oh well, as I tell my students, "zeroes are data, too." >> >> Randy >> >> _________________________________ >> RF Lauff >> Way in the boonies of >> Antigonish County, NS. Links: ------ [1] mailto:naturens-owner@chebucto.ns.ca [2] mailto:naturens-owner@chebucto.ns.ca [3] http://www.birdscanada.org/volunteer/atowls/ [4] mailto:dcrossland@eastlink.ca --=_e153aac3f04ebe4d1d40cfe48e8296e8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"> <html><body> <p>Hi Randy; </p> <p>Jeannie Shermerhorn and myself ran one of my routes last night...as you = said it seemed like a perfect night. We had 10 Barred Owls, including= three at one stop, two of which sounded like the tape...arguing? This was = the route we've had over 20 Owls in the past, including GH and SawWhet, and= several of the "sure" stops didn't produce. Go figure.</p> <p>Billy .On 05 May 2017 13:47, Randy Lauff wrote:</p> <blockquote type=3D"cite" style=3D"padding-left:5px; border-left:#1010ff 2p= x solid; margin-left:5px; width:100%"><!-- html ignored --><!-- head ignore= d --><!-- meta ignored --> <div dir=3D"ltr">That route has been "one of those routes" that people tell= stories about...owls on every stop, other wildlife... It's also two or eve= n three times, come up empty. There was one new cut that I could see from r= oadside, but it was small. And there was regrowth in others, but not yet su= fficient to house an owl nest of any sort. <div> </div> <div>The route passes my home, and I do hear Barred Owls from the yard...tw= ice last week for example.</div> <div> </div> <div>Randy</div> </div> <div class=3D"gmail_extra"><br clear=3D"all" /> <div> <div class=3D"gmail_signature">_________________________________<br />RF La= uff<br />Way in the boonies of<br />Antigonish County, NS.</div> </div> <br /> <div class=3D"gmail_quote">On 5 May 2017 at 11:37, Donna Crossland <span>&l= t;dcrossland@eastlink.ca><= /span> wrote:<br /> <blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin: 0 0 0 .8ex; border-le= ft: 1px #ccc solid; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div lang=3D"EN-CA"> <div class=3D"m_-4241892711179668044WordSection1"> <p class=3D"MsoNormal"><span style=3D"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Cali= bri','sans-serif'; color: #1f497d;">Hi Randy:<span style=3D"text-decoration= : underline;"></span><span style=3D"text-decoration: underline;"></span></s= pan></p> <p class=3D"MsoNormal"><span style=3D"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Cali= bri','sans-serif'; color: #1f497d;"><span style=3D"text-decoration: underli= ne;"></span> <span style=3D"text-decoration: underline;"></span></span= ></p> <p class=3D"MsoNormal"><span style=3D"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Cali= bri','sans-serif'; color: #1f497d;">These were presumably unusual results f= or your area? Have the forests been cut down recently? Small ma= mmal crash? Were they just “out and about” and couldn&rsq= uo;t be bothered coming in to defend the territory? Nesting failures?= It’s always interesting to speculate. <span style=3D"tex= t-decoration: underline;"></span><span style=3D"text-decoration: underline;= "></span></span></p> <p class=3D"MsoNormal"><span style=3D"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Cali= bri','sans