[obol] Newport Burrowing Owl & Aggressive Crows & No Snowy Owl Darn It!

[Cindy Ashy]

Hello All,

This morning I checked all the dunes, roof tops, tree tops, sign posts, and
beaches between south South Beach SP and Nye Beach and could not locate our
early Christmas gift from Santa's Winter Wonderland.

In the middle of all this I swung by the Wellness Center and right where
everyone has reported just under the big sign was the Burrowing Owl....but not
looking very happy because this over-sized crow....so big it made the owl look
like a dwarf....kept harrassing the heck out of the owl....it would kinda
spread out its wings and crouch down and squawk at it almost right in its
face...then fly up a few feet and appear like it was going to land on the owl's
head and at the last minute land just to the side of the owl...and switching
sides back and forth....then a smaller crow buddy landed on top of the sign and
the two crows seemed to talk back and forth for a while and then the smaller
crow began to spend a lot of time lining itself up with the owl just right
(this is a very tall sign and the crow was standing on the top) to defecate on
the owl....the feces bomb flew but barely missed and the owl looked straight up
at the crow and the large crow at the bottom seemed to "fuss" at the smaller
crow for missing....so the small crow looked down several times and seemed to
try to line up with the owl just right again....I mean it was quite obvious
what it was doing....it would move just slightly one way, look down, and then
move slightly the other way....finally, it defecated again, this time just
barely missing to the other side of the owl....the larger crow really put up a
fuss this time and after all the squawking seemed to flew away in disgust...the
little crow stayed and gave it one more try but barely missed again...and then
flew away leaving the owl looking really miserable.

Cindy Ashy


 
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