Early last week, there had been sightings of 2 Long-eared Owls at Shawnee Prairie Preserve. Sightings have been hit or miss over the past week, and with several school groups moving through the area late last week, I assumed the owls would move on. That being said, today, myself and another Naturalist re-spotted the owl in the same area! We only spotted the one, but typically the other was spotted as it flushed, so the second could still have been there...maybe they'll stick around?? Besides the exciting Owl find, not a whole lot else going on out there. The "usuals" were singing, but other than that, pretty quiet. Still only have the Yellow-rumps...the rest of the warblers have yet to find us. (or have we yet to find them?!) Happy Birding! (see list below) Location: DCP - Shawnee Prairie Preserve Observation date: 4/21/08 Number of species: 24 Canada Goose Mallard Cooper's Hawk Killdeer Mourning Dove Long-eared Owl Chimney Swift Red-bellied Woodpecker Downy Woodpecker Blue Jay Tree Swallow Carolina Chickadee White-breasted Nuthatch Blue-gray Gnatcatcher American Robin European Starling Yellow-rumped Warbler Chipping Sparrow Field Sparrow Song Sparrow White-throated Sparrow Northern Cardinal Brown-headed Cowbird American Goldfinch This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org) -- Robb Clifford - Naturalist - Darke County Parks www.darkecountyparks.org "We need another and a wiser, and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals. Remote from universal nature and living by complicated artifice, man in civilization surveys the creature through the glass of his knowledge and sees thereby a feather magnified and the whole image in distortion. We patronize them for their incompleteness, for their tragic fate of having taken a form so far below ourselves. And therein we err, and greatly err. For the animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours, they move finished and complete, gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendor and travail of the earth." -Outermost House by Henry Beston- ______________________________________________________________________ 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]