It has been years since I have heard a GH owl in the neighborhood, but one is here now...a very welcome visitor.  

I live near west campus and have been hearing it off and on since mid October.  I finally saw it the night after Thanksgiving, in a cottonwood tree.  It has also been hanging out in a big sycamore. It shows up randomly, and I have wondered if it comes from over the farm.  I regularly check the cottonwood, and another family keeps an ear out at the sycamore.    

Last weekend a couple was walking the neighborhood searching for a cat that didn't come home, and an older schnauzer disappeared last week from a yard literally midway between these two trees.  Seems more than a coincidence!

Leslie


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On Dec 4, 2011, at 9:17 PM, Sharon Hamersley <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Over the past several weeks my husband has twice noticed a large raptor 
> gliding silently over our house well after sunset. But he's never gotten a 
> solid look to confirm our suspicions that it's a GH Owl.  They have 
> inhabited the woods by the OSU West Campus farms from time to time.  But 
> we've not actually heard any hooting this year.  Any suggestions for other 
> possibilities welcome...or reports of sightings from anyone else in this 
> area.
> 
> Good birding, Sharon
> 
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