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Birding Reports => Toronto Reports => Topic started by: dodo on October 15, 2016, 11:55:54 AM

Title: Great Horned Owl seen from Beltline Trail
Post by: dodo on October 15, 2016, 11:55:54 AM

At 6:30 PM on Thursday Oct 13 I was jogging along the BeltlineTrail and when I was northwest of the Glen Rd. bridge I saw a Great Horned Owl moving around on a lowlying bare tree limb. I couldn't see it very well from the trail because of the darkness and the distance so I walked through the undergrowth to get a better view but it flew off to a more distant tree behind a chain link fence.I later heard it making barking and hooting sounds.

Title: Re: Great Horned Owl seen from Beltline Trail
Post by: Pat Hodgson on October 17, 2016, 02:20:14 PM

there are definitely some around - I heard a pair calling on Sept 27th, and I live relatively close to where you are describing
they are hard to find now that we have so few crows around