Full Moon and Apple Fritters
Tonight was a good night at the Allegany State Park Owl Banding Station! I had that feeling things were going to be good as soon as my neighbor dropped off some Apple Fritters just because they had a little extra! I was happy to thank them with a phone call around 7:30pm asking them if they would like to see a foreign recaptured owl that I had just caught. This Northern Saw-whet Owl was previously banded two years ago in Ontario Canada (thanks to quick database response from the Bird Banding Lab). It will probably be a few days before I learn more about this owl’s previous capture.
This is this stations second ever foreign recaptured bird and both have come from Ontario Canada. What is also ironic is that both birds have been caught in the fall during the official “full moon” night. Tonight’s bird was caught with dark clouds covering the moon where the other bird was caught during the darkest part of a lunar eclipse.
Radar shows very little movement of birds and this might be due to bad wind direction.
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Mmm, fritters & owls – together at last! 🙂
6 November 2006 at 10:47 am
Grrrr comp problems were keeping me from here.
I had to LOL at the Ontario bird being called “foreign” though it is of course. I agree with above comment, apple fritters and owls, mmmmm!
7 November 2006 at 6:06 pm
they were good! hmmm “foreign” means not banded by me!!
7 November 2006 at 9:43 pm