[EBB Sightings] Byron airport area owls

i want to thank everyone for their off list help in identifying the pair of owls i encountered that night, i am now certain they were short-eared owls 
Cheers

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Mike "troll" Dame
http://miketroll.buzznet.com/user/
Arachnid Wrangler
Antioch, Cal.

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From: troll.quality at comcast.net (Mike ''troll'' Dame)
> hey all we were out on Byron Hot Spring rd tonight around midnight 5/21-22 
> looking for scorpions and oh it was so beautiful listening to the distant do-doo 
> songs, it was like a bunch of people were playing the same note on those school 
> recorder flute things over and over. i dont know what type of owls they were but 
> there were a few and all seemed to be in the same general area forward and off 
> towards the airport when we were by the water tank past the first cattle guard.  
> anyone have a clue what type of owl these could of been?
> later on we headed over to Armstrong rd, down the road past where it turns left 
> about half way to the end there were two owls sitting on the fence that im 
> haveing difficulty IDing they seemed just slightly smaller than a barn owl, 
> round faces/head, no horn tuffs, and had a gray on gray coloring with light 
> colored under wings in flight. i was with in 7' of one with a light on it and it 
> reminded me more of a great gray owl then a barn owl or short eared owl but the 
> eyes seemed bigger then how the great gray look, the only thing im sure of is it 
> wasnt a great horned unless young can fly/hover well and dont have horns.
> any help with an ID would be wonderful
> 
> Mike
> 
> --
> Mike "troll" Dame
> http://miketroll.buzznet.com/user/
> Arachnid Wrangler
> Antioch, Cal.
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