•Sometimes they’re in a hurry:
674-77712 (originally banded on 10/17/03 in Addison, VT) was
recaptured and released at Hidden Valley at 9:45 EST on 11/3/04, and captured
again that same night at 12:45 EST in Southern York County, PA, just
north of the MD line, having traveled 56 miles.
•924-00832 banded 10/5/04 at Small valley was recaptured on
10/12/04, approx. 150 miles to the WSW at a station near Bittinger in the
western panhandle of Maryland. A
number of ‘our’ owls have been netted at this station over the
years.
•Two of ‘our’ owls banded at Small Valley and Hidden Valley this
year, where later recaptured Eastern Mennonite University near
Bergton, VA, in the Alleghenies of extreme NW Virginia.
•Bucking the trend: one owl, after being banded at Hidden
Valley, flew 100 NE and was recaptured the following week at Skytop in the
Poconos!
•But rarely, to Lamb’s Knoll, MD, only 60 miles due south of
King’s Gap on the same ridge.
Why? No one knows.