Awesome Scott. Another piece of the Boreal Owl puzzle! Great work!!!
On Thursday, July 11, 2019 at 8:00:00 AM UTC-6, Scott wrote: > Hi all, > > Just wanted to let you know that for the first time. The Boreal Owl has > been documented as a nesting species in Rocky Mountain National Park. > > On April 9th during a owl prowl for Boulder Audubon, We discovered a > vocalizing Boreal Owl. It even went into a cavity then quickly exited. > > I went back the following day to relocate the nest tree, but was > unable. Therefore, I returned that evening to refind the male > vocalizing. A shrt time later a female arrived and began to vocalize too. > > The male took his potential mate to the nest site. She late accepted it. > > The female eventually began nesting in the cavity and ended up raising > two owlets. > > I was able to monitor the nest for weeks, both day and night and > documented several prey items. > > Both owlets fledged, I was there when the first owlet fledged; they > have since moved away from the nest. > > It was quite the experience! > > The best part of the entire experience was that I assisted Ron Ryder in > the early 1990's with his study of Boreal Owls. Both Ron Ryder and Dave > Palmer documented the first ever nesting Boreal Owls in Colorado in the > late 1970's and I am continuing there research. > > If you want to see any images of the owls, go to > http://www.carriep.org/boreal-owl-research > > Best, > > Scott Rashid > Estes Park > > --- > This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. > https://www.avast.com/antivirus > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Colorado Birds" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to cobirds+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to cobirds@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/cobirds/b1fe4ff8-5e4d-41be-8425-1170c6f3b2ae%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
