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great grey owl Yosemite Chevron Meadow (1 Viewer)

cassowary

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Greetings,
I will be visiting Yosemite and surrounds (possibly Mono Lake and Mammoth) this or next week and will be looking in particular for Great Gray Owl. I noticed that nobody has reported Great Gray Owl in CA on e-bird this year.

Chevron Meadow seems like a place many people try for Great Gray Owl also Wawona Meadow seems a popular spot. Anyway if anyone has had success in or near Yosemite preferably recently please let me know.
 
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The Great Gray Owl of Wawona

My husband just met The Great Gray Owl of Wawona Meadow, Yosemite, just south of the edge of the golf course, about 9:45AM, Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2012. The owl was sitting on a stump near the meadow loop trail and Stan was riding his bike. He was sitting so quietly and only about 15 feet from the trail, just looking at Stan. Stan talked to him and he flew up to a nearby tree where he had to peek around a branch to see as Stan talked to him. The owl talked back, making low squeaking sounds as if talking, too. Stan rode his bike underneath him, and when he looked at the owl, the owl made a face at him as if that was unacceptable behavior, and so Stan took that as his que to leave, so he did. It was an exciting encounter with a Great Gray Owl.
 
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