Idaho Northern Hawk Owl

["Bryan Shirley" <bt_shirley at hotmail dot com>]

There is in fact a Hawk Owl in Sun Valley Idaho.  Eric Huish and I just saw 
it today.  It took us 5
hours to get there from Orem, but it is well worth the drive.  It was at the 
intersection of
Elkhorn Village & Highline in Ketchum.  When we got there
it couldn't have possibly been any more obvious.  There are only a few trees 
there and it was
in the top of a small pine.  A lady was shoveling snow about 10 yards from 
the owl.  We
actually were too close to fit the whole owl in our spotting scopes!
There are also Common Redpolls in the neighborhood and we heard that there 
is a Hoary
as well, but we didn't see it.

Bryan Shirley

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