Another Powerful Owl?

To:	"David Cook" <>
Subject:	Another Powerful Owl?
From:	"martin butterfield" <>
Date:	Thu, 17 May 2007 17:13:59 +1000

A first thought is that in Canada the large owls irrupt Southwards when the lemming population crashes. We were fortunate enough to experience this, in 1991 and thus got to see Snowy owls and a Great grey owl in suburban Ottawa. Has the drought in combination with the fires put sufficient pressure on the mountain possum population to force the powerful owls out of the forests into less normal habitat?

The Canadian owls were more active than the ANBG specimen. One Snowy Owl took up residence in the CBD and was reputed to sidle up to public servants at lunchtime trying to extort a portion of their sandwiches.

My second thought is that I bet the Canberra Times doesn't publish that photograph!

Martin

On 5/17/07, David Cook <> wrote:

Last night, SOMETHING killed this Brushtail Possum and devoured the front half of it. Kathy found it in our back yard this afternoon. Out here, foxes are common and would normally be the immediate suspect, but this kill doesn't match our experience of fox operandi. Until recently we wouldn't have considered the possibility of a Powerful Owl here in Wamboin. However, a very credible source (Geoff Butler, who lives about 3 km as the Powerful Owl flies from us) recently heard a PO calling near his place, and this, together with the ANBG visitor this week makes me wonder. Any thoughts?

David

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