[EBB Sightings] Great-horned Owl Nests ( was Red Phalaropes continue)

In a message dated 5/9/2008 8:56:15 P.M. Pacific  Daylight Time, 
rcpower at sbcglobal.net writes:
So Alameda County is the  unofficial epicenter of the
Great-horned Owl population boom of 2008.  Claremont
Canyon, Murietta's Well, and now Coyote Hills. 
I can add  another Alameda County GREAT-HORNED OWL nest to the list.  This 
year I was  thrilled to discover a GHOW nest on county property adjacent to the 
Fairmont  Hospital campus (in San Leandro), where I work.  No so thrilled, I 
assume,  were my local Red-tailed Hawks, who I first found using that nest in 
2002.   Yesterday (5/8/08) I saw two young GHOWs on the nest.  (The Red-tails 
are  still in the neighborhood, so I assume they built a new nest this  year.)

Good birding,
Kathy Robertson
Hayward, CA  




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