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For Owl Lovers Only




  For anyone in vicinity who may want to monitor activity, UNC's barred owls 
have been very active for last week carrying food to nest both early morn 
and evening with owlets due to emerge within next 5 days (and then stay out 
all day long for easy viewing). Family remains on quad several months 
teaching younguns to fly, hunt, and basically be  professional barred owls!!
  Directions to nest tree below, though once out they will quickly climb to 
other adjacent trees.

  (BTW, archival records indicate that barred owls have nested on the campus 
quad at least as far back as the 1940’s; pretty incredible!)
  Also, for any barred lovers not already familiar with it a wonderful 
website is: www.owlcam.com recording the breeding activities of barred owls 
attracted to a homemade nestbox the last few yrs.

**Rob Gluck       Chapel Hill      thrush@hotmail.com

DIRECTIONS:  front quad of campus (known by some as McCorkle Place) is 
across from the Franklin St. post office or just west of Morehead 
Planetarium. Look for a concrete obelisk memorial (to Joseph Campbell) 
toward middle of quad.  Then about 10 yards south (away from Franklin St.) 
of the memorial is a large oak tree and on east side of tree, just above the 
lowest branch is the nest hole, about 10 yds up.


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