{"id":4083,"date":"2020-12-08T11:19:11","date_gmt":"2020-12-08T17:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/?p=4083"},"modified":"2020-12-08T16:18:36","modified_gmt":"2020-12-08T22:18:36","slug":"december-8-2020-a-two-owl-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/december-8-2020-a-two-owl-day\/","title":{"rendered":"December 8, 2020 &#8211; A Two Owl Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2329\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/great-horned-owl.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2329\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2329\" src=\"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/great-horned-owl.jpg\" alt=\"Great Horned Owl\" width=\"300\"\/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2329\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Great Horned Owl and friends (click to see the larger version)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I tallied only 22 species on December 8 but two of those 22 were owls. Seeing more than one owl in a day at Montrose is unusual. A Great Horned Owl was flying around the Point trying to find a place to take a break but a Cooper&#8217;s Hawk had other ideas and harassed it relentlessly. When the Cooper&#8217;s Hawk gave up and moved on, a gang of American Crows found the owl and picked up where the hawk left off. The besieged owl kept moving around, trying to lose the crows and find a quiet place to rest. Montrose has little in the way of habitat where a large owl can hide. Throw in some American Crows and you&#8217;ve got an unhappy situation. The crows were still yammering at the Great Horned when I left.<\/p>\n<p>The other owl was a Northern Saw-whet. This bird was in the same area as last winter&#8217;s Saw-whet and may be the same individual. The best way to find a Saw-whet is to listen for complaining Black-capped Chickadees and to look for whitewash (owl poop) in roosting habitat like dense stands of conifers. Link to myeBird checklist for the morning below.<\/p>\n<p>\n<strong>eBird Checklist<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/ebird.org\/checklist\/S77226273\">December 8, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I tallied only 22 species on December 8 but two of those 22 were owls. Seeing more than one owl in a day at Montrose is unusual. A Great Horned Owl was flying around the Point trying to find a place to take a break but a Cooper&#8217;s Hawk had other ideas and harassed it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[302,273,57],"class_list":["post-4083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-winter-bird-reports","tag-great-horned-owl","tag-northern-saw-whet-owl","tag-owls"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4083"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4085,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4083\/revisions\/4085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}