My recent post prompted a message from Tanya Beyer, regarding a Long-

eared Owl she saw in downtown Duluth today (10/24/2011):



"This owl crossed my path just after I had headed up from the 

lakewalk at about 8:30 a.m. Monday. I had reached the plaza above 

Michigan Street and was just past the monument with all the stacked 

hands, titled 'The Arising.' The owl, which I guessed to be a great 

horned at first, plunged into one of three or four spruces in the 

planting behind the monument. So I crept around the wall of the 

planting and was soon able to see the grey bulk and the perky tall 

horns above the eyes. The owl stayed, turning frequently to look 

away, then to look back and make sure the observer was no more of a 

threat than before.



This is my second long-eared. In 1977, at the age of 17, I was so 

lucky as to scare one up in the pasture behind my childhood home at 

the edge of the Indianapolis metro area. We had a lot of thickets and 

pines in the overgrown farmland that surrounded us there, and in the 

two months that that owl stayed around, floating from one pine grove 

to another, it seemed the whole birding community of Indpls. got out 

there to view our visitor--including a whole inner city high-school 

natural history club."



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