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**Dale
Pugh had the pleasure of spotting two owls this winter. On Boxing Day, she listened to some noisy
crows and discovered they were mobbing a great horned owl. She was able to capture a few images before
her camera battery quickly died. Last
week, based on a tip, Dale and Mark went searching for a barred owl and
were successful in locating it sleeping soundly on a branch. Dale was prepared to stay the course and wait
to see the owl open its eyes and eventually fly. A noisy, hairy woodpecker came onto the scene
and could have been mobbing the owl.
Dale focused on the woodpecker for a few minutes and noticed the owl was
unaffected by its loud peeks. She took
the sleeping owl for granted, looked away for a couple of minutes, and when she
looked up, the owl had vanished without a sound. Both owl sightings offered lessons … don’t
leave your binoculars at home and don’t look away!
**Suzanne
Rousseau in Sussex was pleased to have a duo of ruffed grouse come to
visit her on a gazebo structure just outside the window to let her photograph
the moment.
The
tree of interest was a chokecherry.
**John
Inman’s juvenile American goshawk nicely cooperated again for a rear view, showing the two-tone brown bars of the tail with a narrow white border
that is typical of the juvenile bird.
John
also photographed a female rusty blackbird that nicely shows the
distinctive head pattern of rusty brown crown and prominent pale supercilium of
the female in winter nonbreeding plumage.
Nelson Poirier
Nature Moncton
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