[CT Birds] Let's Look for that HAWK OWL!

[Tim Antanaitis]

Here are highlights of the post from the Mass birder about the Hawk Owl:  

On 2/7 at about 3pm I came across a Northern Hawk Owl
in Southern Worcester County. On 2/8 I saw the bird again,
quickly, at about 7am near the original location.
On 2/8, a search party of 8 birders split into 4 teams to
search the surrounding areas. We looked from 7:30am - 5pm
and were unable to find the bird.  The owl was seen on
farmland that abuts a marsh and several more miles of
farmland. This whole area is private property and the
owners want to keep their addresses private.

Some of my thoughts:

The only experience I have with a Hawk Owl is the one
Meredith mentioned in Root, NY (2/16/03 with Kathy Hall)
that was out in the middle of open farmland and kept
returning to an isolated tall oak (I think it was an oak).

If you use maps.live.com and zoom in and use the "hybrid"
feature you can see where the most extensive open farmland
areas are located, as well as the CT/MA border, and
therefore try to guess where it was seen in MA.  I plan on
searching similar habitat in northeastern CT if I get a
chance in the next few days, and others should do the same
if possible.  I don't know about Meredith or Kathy, but
the one Hawk Owl I did see is easily in my top 5 favorites
ever seen, so I'm going to do all I can to try to find
another one here in CT, and who knows what else is hiding
in northeastern CT.


-Tim Antanaitis
 
 

  
       
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