February 13, 2015
Richard Stevens:
After visiting a friend and relative in nearby hospitals, I drove to Aurora Reservoir (Arapahoe County). Temperatures reached the middle 60s; winds were mild. Only a couple of Ring-billed Gulls stood on the remaining ice at Aurora Reservoir.
Instead of driving the DIA Owl Loop, I decided to explore eastern Arapahoe County (including visiting another friend). Eventually I found four Great Horned Owls on nests. At my friend's ranch, we relocated two Long-eared Owls. At a nearby ranch, we found an Eastern Screech-Owl (perhaps nesting in an old cottonwood).
At dusk, I watched a Short-eared Owl fly over a cattail marsh along Kiowa Creek.
Will have to return to watch results of the nesting and possible nesting owls!
Richard Stevens:
After visiting a friend and relative in nearby hospitals, I drove to Aurora Reservoir (Arapahoe County). Temperatures reached the middle 60s; winds were mild. Only a couple of Ring-billed Gulls stood on the remaining ice at Aurora Reservoir.
Instead of driving the DIA Owl Loop, I decided to explore eastern Arapahoe County (including visiting another friend). Eventually I found four Great Horned Owls on nests. At my friend's ranch, we relocated two Long-eared Owls. At a nearby ranch, we found an Eastern Screech-Owl (perhaps nesting in an old cottonwood).
At dusk, I watched a Short-eared Owl fly over a cattail marsh along Kiowa Creek.
Will have to return to watch results of the nesting and possible nesting owls!
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