We learned they were eastern screech owls because of the owl website that had sound files of their calls. These screech owls have a rippling sort of hoot that is kind of shivery. I hear them even in the daytime out at the farm where I ride. The parent owl showed up as the sun [...]
We had to have the two dead sycamores taken out of our backyard. We suspected that one tree had an owl nest, because we often saw the adult owls hanging out there. And the tree being dead and mostly hollow was excellent owl habitat. Unfortunately, it also sat right next to the house. And it [...]
It turns out there’s actually quite a bit of seismic activity in New York state: Still, it’s not where geologists expect quakes in New York. Quake central has been the Adirondacks, the site, for instance, of a magnitude 5.5 quake in 1944 near Massena that had residents thinking they had been attacked by the Japanese. [...]
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