[Douglbirds] Owl & goose

[ouzels8]

Great Horned Owls have made a pre-emptive strike on the Red-tailed Hawk nest on Walker Road. For the last several years red-tails nested in a big nest in a tall cottonwood east of Walker Road (just west of Franktown, on the way to the infamous Walker Pit). This month (at least the last two days) we've seen an owl sitting in the nest, apparently incubating eggs. Our first Atlas confirmation for 2008!

We also saw the White-fronted Goose today at the Walker Pit (among the 500 Canda and Cackling geese -- at Noon; we saw no geese there at 9 a.m. 

Hugh Kingery
Franktown, CO 
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