[mou] Re: [mnbird] About stress on the Great Grey and other owls

[b.pomeroy]

This has been a concern of mine from the start and I am glad Forest brought 
it up.  I do go look for the owls every few days, but I do go to a different 
location each time. I have never wanted to stress them out, and I do notice 
that a lot of times when someone pulls over to watch the birds, they fly 
off.  I have wondered if they have just missed a meal and now they have to 
go else where to hunt...have they been interrupted to the point of 
stressing?  The owls seem to feeding in the daylight hours and to me that 
indicates they may be having a hard time eating enough, and may be they are 
starving right in front of us.
That is why the only time I do stop near the owl is when I am on my owl 
survey route.  I leave as soon as I have recorded the location.
Bruce

"I care to live, only to entice people to
 look at Nature's loveliness."
-- John Muir
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Forest Strnad" <fkstrnad@ll.net>
To: "MnBird" <Mnbird@lists.mnbird.net>; "MOU" <mou@biosci.cbs.umn.edu>
Cc: "Strnad, Forest" <fkstrnad@ll.net>
Sent: Monday, January 10, 2005 8:08 PM
Subject: [mnbird] About stress on the Great Grey and other owls


> Greetings birders:
>
> Your comments interest me concerning the stress on Great
> Grey Owls and other owls.
>
> How comes no one mentions the persons who keep going again
> and again and again to look at the Great Grey and other
> Owls.
>
> It seems to me that once you see so many owls you could give
> the owls a break by not returning so many times to look for
> more and more owls.
>
> What with so many Minnesota birders and many from other
> states birders wanting to see the incursion of owls,
> Minnesota birders ought to consider spending less time going
> again and again to look for the Great Grey and other owls.
>
> Forest Strnad
> Faribault, MN
>
>
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