Short-eared Owls, Portland Jetport

[Nathan Hall]

Hello

I stopped by the MAC jets parking this afternoon to look for Snowies and found three Short-eared Owls.

Park at MAC Jets viewing parking and look towards Thompson’s Point. There is very limited parking here.

I’ll post some poor digiscope pics to my eBird checklist once I’m home.

Nathan Hall

Portland, ME

[Charles Duncan]

Many, many thanks, Nathan, for the alert!

Laura and I headed over, arriving at MAC Jets by 4:22 pm.  We found the first SEOW actively hunting soon after.  Our direct view was obscured by two jets right in front of the parking area, but we found a place to look to the east and across the runways.  We later saw at least two more actively hunting, and I wonder if there even could have been four of them.  We witnessed an aerial "discussion" about territory between two of them.

Were the birds hunting or perched when you saw them?

[Nathan Hall]

Hey Charles

I'm glad that you found them. 

They were very active throughout the time that I was watching them. They were alternating between short moments perched and hunting. I noted they made numerous drops in what appeared to be attempts to catch something. The most I saw at once was three when they were having "an aerial 'discussion' about territory." But I wouldn't be surprised if there were more it was hard to keep track of them all.

Be well

Nathan

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[Weston Barker]

Three owls were visible hunting over the airfield when I left at 3:30pm. Seen well (including one that twice flew directly overhead) from MAC Air Group public viewing area. 

Weston 

[Weston Barker]

*Edit: I left at 4:30 pm, not 3:30

On Sat, Jan 9, 2021 at 4:59 PM Ben Tucker <benjami...@gmail.com> wrote:

Great to know. We were there around noon and saw nothing.

On Sat, Jan 9, 2021, 4:51 PM Weston Barker <westonb...@gmail.com> wrote:

Three owls were visible hunting over the airfield when I left at 3:30pm. Seen well (including one that twice flew directly overhead) from MAC Air Group public viewing area. 

Weston 

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