•Where do they come from?
•Lake Timiskaming, Ontario,
Canada, is at the northern end of the Ottawa River on the Ontario-Quebec
border.
–854-40967 banded 10/3/04 ,
showed up 10/27/04 at Hidden Valley
–The next day, 764-35397,
also banded on 10/3/04, was recovered at Small Valley.
• These represent the farthest direct recoveries (same
year) for the program to date, about 450 – 500 miles.
•924-15510 was banded on
10/26/04 at Prince Edward Point Bird Observatory, Ontario, Canada, and
recaptured on 11/9/04 at Hidden Valley.
We recover a number of owls from PEPBO which bands many owls being located
on the north shore of Lake Ontario where the owls congregate awaiting
favorable conditions to cross.
•844-76834 was banded on
9/21/04 in Freeport, Maine, and netted at Small Valley on 10/25/04.
•At DuBois, PA (NW corner
of ClearfieldCo.), 833-99465 was banded on 10/31/04, and recovered at
Small Valley on 11/5/04.