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 Sent from my iPad 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 > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > 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] ______________________________________________________________________ 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]