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strange hitchhiker
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- Subject: strange hitchhiker
- From: Len/Esther Pardue <eljeep@mindspring.com>
- Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 18:22:48 -0500
- Sender: carolinabirds-owner@acpub.duke.edu
This really happened. I went out to my carport back of the house this
morning (temperature in the teens, snow on the ground, but sunny), my head
down checking the footing. As I approached the Trooper, I looked up and
got quite a start -- a red-phase Eastern Screech Owl was sitting on top of
the Trooper.
It looked a little hunched up and only one eye was open, so I thought it
might be sick or injured. I dashed back to the house to get Esther, and we
quickly returned to the carport.
The owl was still sitting there, but it had opened the other eye and no
longer appeared hunched over. It looked at us, we looked at it, and then
it flew off toward a big hemlock.
This is probably the same bird that we've seen frequently in an owl box
near the carport in recent weeks. And maybe it's a cousin of one that
roosted for several days in another hemlock in front of the house the
winter before last.
First time I've seen an owl atop a vehicle. Wonder why it picked that
perch and how it landed on it? It left behind just a couple of feathers.
Len Pardue, Asheville, NC