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- From: josh@cqs.washington.edu (Josh Hayes)
- Newsgroups: rec.birds
- Subject: Re: Bird watching at night
- Date: 21 Jan 93 18:42:31 GMT
- Organization: University of Washington
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- On a related question, has anyone had any success "jacklighting"
- birds; that is, going out at night with a nice bright spotlight
- and catching eyeshine?
-
- About half of my really good owl sightings have come at night,
- trooping down to the, uh, well...I know of no delicate way to
- put this...down to the latrine at my grandparents' cabin, flashlight
- in hand. Generally I can get within about five feet and they just
- blink at me.
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- Once a screech owl was so irritated with me he just sat on his
- branch, eight feet away, and - screeched!
-
- Needless to say, I leave them alone after a few seconds....no sense
- bothering them....
-
- I have found twilight to be an EXCELLENT time for birding, and the
- hour before sunrise to be excellent as well, especially for waterfowl.
- The sewage ponds east of Austin, Texas, are very good at that time,
- in spring especially.
-
- Getting a little tired of being cooped up in my office,
-
- Josh Hayes
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- Josh Hayes, Quantitative Sciences HR-20 U of Washington
- josh@mowgli.cqs.washington.edu 206 543-5004
- The harvest now is over, the summer days are gone
- And yet no power cometh to help us
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