Finding saw-whets

written by Drew Weber

A while ago, when it was still warm and there were leaves on the trees,  I went out for a little daytime saw-whet radio telemetry. The skies were clear, it was almost warm and lots of birds such as pine siskins, white-breasted nuthatches and golden-crowned kinglets were flitting around. Scott and I were searching for owl we had named Quasimodo and her signal had us walking back and forth for a long while until we finally narrowed down here location to a group of pitch pines. We circled for a while, searching through the branches and pine cones until our necks were properly sore. Finally, Scott spotted her, high up in the top of pine, working on swallowing a mouse. See if you can find her in the image below, then click on the photo to see where she is...