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N. Saw-whet Owl in South Carolina





Even though my Web sites have been off-line and I've been without 
e-mail for most of the last month, things have still been happening 
at Hilton Pond Center for Piedmont Natural History.

Since Halloween night I have been playing audiolures and running mist 
nets to follow up on my 1999 capture of seven Northern Saw-whet Owls 
(NSWO). Prior to last year, only four NSWO had ever been banded in 
South Carolina, the most recent in 1972 by Evelyn Dabbs near Sumter.

Last night (30 November)--one year and one day after the banding of 
my first NSWO at Hilton Pond--I netted my first one for the autumn. 
(Can saw-whets read calendars?)

Details and photos are at the Hilton Pond Center website ( 
http://www.hiltonpond.org ) under "This Week at Hilton Pond" for the 
week of 29-30 November.

This nocturnal mistnetting is fun, but it sure does strange things to 
my sleep cycle.  ;-)


Happy Owling,

BILL
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BILL HILTON JR., "The Piedmont Naturalist"
Hilton Pond Center for Piedmont Natural History
1432 DeVinney Road
York, South Carolina 29745
USA

e-mail: <hilton@hiltonpond.org>

Voice: (803) 684-5852

eFax: (503) 218-0845

Hilton Pond Center for Piedmont Natural History is a 501(c)(3) 
non-profit research and education organization, so all in-kind or 
monetary gifts to the Center and to Operation RubyThroat: The 
Hummingbird Project are tax-deductible. Please visit our websites:

Hilton Pond Center  <http://www.hiltonpond.org>

Operation RubyThroat: The Hummingbird Project  <http://www.rubythroat.org>


"Never trust a person too lazy to get up for sunrise or too busy to 
watch the sunset."

						BHjr.

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