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Saturday was a day for birding. After looking for winter gulls along the Mohawk River upstream from its confluence with the Hudson and not finding any except a single Iceland Gull just west of where Route 9 goes over the Mohawk. I decided to try Fort Edward, not for the Short-eared Owls that [...]

Pearl-spotted Owl Glaucidium perlatum
04 October 2006
 
The smallest owl in southern Africa (at just 18cm/7 inches it’s smaller than a Starling Sturnus vulgaris), the Pearl-spotted Owl is a common resident typically found in thornveld or broadleaved woodland.

This one was being mobbed by a variety of small passerines (including African Barred Warbler and Melba Finch) in [...]