Recent Year Totals:
• 2004 - 528 owls
• 2003 - 393 owls
• 2002 - 298 owls
• 2001 - 653 owls
• 2000 - 270 owls
• 1999 - 714 owls
• For the past 20 years, banding programs have reported saw-whet owl numbers that showed a distinct 2-year cycle, higher years alternating with lower years.
• But 2003, which should have been a good year, was disappointing.
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• and this year, which should have been a low year, was surprisingly high.  But 2004 was not a ‘normal’ high-yeild year: