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The owl was at the same location this morning, at 12:45 pm. Several of the other people present engaged in the same behavior described below, while the owl was settled on the ground about 40-50 yards from the road, but the owl tolerated their close approach and stayed put. I understand that some people are feeding the owl, and I saw one of the men who approached it toss it something. Arjun Guneratne On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 8:36 AM, B.heineke <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Same thing seen on Monday, about 5 folks gathered in the field perhaps 15 > feet from the bird. As I arrived another fellow got out of his car and > walked across the field to take pictures. the owl got tired of this > audience and flew across the field to a pole near me. The people left the > field and followed to the pole. > > Fortunately the owl tolerates people quite well. However these folks were > trespassing, they were standing on the owls hunting ground and they were > too close. Later when these folks were gone and the field remained empty > the owl returned to that spot and hunted the ground around the irrigation > equipment. > > Those folks looking for good pictures possibly missed some great ones by > interfering with the owls hunting grounds, amidst the many rules of conduct > they broke. > > Sent from my iPad > > > On Feb 6, 2014, at 2:52 PM, Bill Stjern <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > > > The snowy owl near Hogan and 180 street in Dakota county was still > being seen on Tuesday, Februay 4. It had been hunting from a perch on a > piece of irrigation equiptment but was frightened off by several > photographers who got out of there cars and starting walking through the > snowy field to get closer to the owl. > > > > Peg Stjern > > > > ---- > > Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net > > Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html > > ---- > Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net > Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html >