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Late yesterday afternoon, shortly after dusk (when I checked it was 5:35,)
I was hauling the wheelbarrow with the evening manure through the still
sloppy mud from the recent rain out to the compost pile. The weather had
little to recommend it: gray, overcast, sort of spitting a frozen drizzle.
It was one of those chores that builds character (and keeps the barn
clean,) and so we persevere.

Then I heard a distant hooting. After dumping my load I paused before
heading back to the horse barn. Yep! The first great-horned owl of the
season was calling. What a delightful evening!

Our farm sits on a saddle of the Flint Ridge upland. Examining Google Earth
images, or checking the good old-fashioned USGS topographic map reveals
that our wooded ravines are a part of a fairly large, roughly 1 1/2 by 3
mile contiguous forest, with a few open spots for agricultural fields,
quarries, etc. Almost every winter we hear great-horned owls. I have never
seen them. They are somewhere off our property, to the north, but it's sure
nice to know they are around.

Bob Evans
Geologist, etc.
Hopewell Township, Muskingum County

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