Owls Here and There

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Today I spoke on the phone with a lady who lives near the Muskegon Channel and has had a Snowy Owl on the roof of her house several times lately including this morning!  Her original description sounded like a lighter plumaged bird than the one posted earlier this year on these pages, but after looking more closely at this photo that she has subsequently sent, both she and I think it could be the same owl.  Others' comments welcome.
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Earlier this morning I birded the south Wastewater fields, clay ponds and wood lots tallying 29 species in a couple hours including four year birds (Eastern Towhee, Wood Duck, Field Sparrow and Tree Swallow) raising my species total to 90, but who's counting?  I arrived at 6:55 in time to scare two Short-eared Owls up from Swanson Road about a half mile south of Apple Ave.
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- Ric
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Muskegon Wastewater System--Laketon/Swanson Fields, Muskegon, US-MI
Mar 28, 2012 6:55 AM - 8:55 AM
Protocol: Traveling
1.5 mile(s)
Comments:    Both Clay Ponds, Abandoned Orchard, and Seba South of Laketon
29 species (+2 other taxa)

Canada Goose (Branta canadensis)  200
Wood Duck (Aix sponsa)  4
Mallard (Anas platyrhynchos)  4
Turkey Vulture (Cathartes aura)  2
Red-tailed Hawk (Buteo jamaicensis)  1
Killdeer (Charadrius vociferus)  1
gull sp. (Larinae sp.)  25
Mourning Dove (Zenaida macroura)  6
Short-eared Owl (Asio flammeus)  2    6:55 a.m. Laketon 1/2 mile S. of Apple
Northern Flicker (Colaptes auratus)  2
Pileated Woodpecker (Dryocopus pileatus)  2
Eastern Phoebe (Sayornis phoebe)  1
Blue Jay (Cyanocitta cristata)  4
American Crow (Corvus brachyrhynchos)  2
Horned Lark (Eremophila alpestris)  12
Tree Swallow (Tachycineta bicolor)  2
Black-capped Chickadee (Poecile atricapillus)  2
Tufted Titmouse (Baeolophus bicolor)  2
Eastern Bluebird (Sialia sialis)  3
American Robin (Turdus migratorius)  10
European Starling (Sturnus vulgaris)  7
Eastern Towhee (Pipilo erythrophthalmus)  1
Field Sparrow (Spizella pusilla)  2
Song Sparrow (Melospiza melodia)  7
Northern Cardinal (Cardinalis cardinalis)  1
Red-winged Blackbird (Agelaius phoeniceus)  12
Eastern Meadowlark (Sturnella magna)  4
Brown-headed Cowbird (Molothrus ater)  15
blackbird sp. (Icteridae sp.)  100    flock flying between the clay ponds
House Finch (Carpodacus mexicanus)  1
American Goldfinch (Spinus tristis)  2
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