We returned home yesterday at 2 PM to discover a Barred Owl sitting on the arm of my dog grooming table which sits near the door going out to our elevated back deck! That area is under an overhang of the house and surveys all our birdfeeders. A nice cozy little alcove. It was there about twenty minutes (don't know when it arrived) but It left us a nice gift: an owl pellet! We back up to Cricket Woods Scout Camp. There have been Barred Owls seen there before but in an area that recently has had some construction for a new lodge. I wonder if it is searching for a new roosting area. Christine Hawley Butler Township, north of Dayton, south of Vandalia [log in to unmask] ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. Additional discussions can be found in our forums, at www.ohiobirds.org/forum/. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: http://listserv.muohio.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]