Sometimes at the end of the banding season it takes a nudge to make a discovery. Chris Sukha returned to the marsh after being away banding in h B.C at Mackenzie bird observatory. So he made it back at the very end of owls and talked me into trying a few more nights. We managed to catch a boreal owls while he was out and an incredible 4 long eared owls. After exchanging information and emails with other owl banders it turns out that we may be in area where we might actually be able to try for long eared owls by using a long eared call. one bander in northern Saskatchewan typically bands around 30 a season . it is a pretty exciting prospect so we will give it a try. We ended up catching 7 for the season which is the best we have ever done our previous high was 5 long eared which we caught back in 2003 and we have caught a total of 24 over all of years. This year all of our long eared owls were caught while we were playing a boreal owl call. Chris will be banding once again this spring at the marsh so hopefully if you have not met Chris yet you will this spring . nice to have you back at the marsh Chris!!!
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