[mou] Hawk Owl Caching?

[Laura Erickson]

I birded Sax-Zim with an old friend today.  We had a splendid day, with 
about 35 Great Gray Owls, maybe 10 Northern Hawk Owls, and one Barred Owl 
(on Hwy. 7 1/2 mile south of 52).  In town, we encountered a Northern Hawk 
Owl plunging to the ground and catching a mole.  The owl carried the mole 
up into a tree--we could see the four pink feet sticking out--and then 
observed the bird carry it to a spruce tree, and stuff the little animal 
into a thick tuft of foliage a couple of feet from the top.  If they're 
caching food, there must still be reasonably good hunting there.

Laura Erickson
Duluth, MN


Producer, "For the Birds" radio program
<http://www.lauraerickson.com/>

There is symbolic as well as actual beauty in the migration of 
birds.  There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of 
nature--the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after the winter.

                                 --Rachel Carson