Spotted a female merganser with her two chicks at Ecola Creek this morning.
~Jay
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- Ecola Creek Awareness Project
- PO Box 181 Cannon Beach, Oregon, 97110
- Ecola Creek Awareness Project (ECAP) is a non-profit organization comprised of ordinary folks with a commitment to sustainable stewardship of the community of Cannon Beach and the Ecola Creek ecosystem. ECAP achieves our mission by producing a seasonal newsletter, hosting regularly scheduled events, and creating materials to support the community in its stewardship efforts. If you are interested in becoming more involved with ECAP please contact us, we'd love to hear from you. Email anytime with questions comments, or observations. ecola_watershed@yahoo.com
Notes in Nature
Ecola Creek Critter
The Barred Owl's habitat is characterized as heavy mature woods with nearby open country for foraging. These vary from upland woods to lowland swamps usually near creeks, lakes or river valleys. These Owls are monogamous and probably pair for life. Nest sites are most commonly in hollows of old trees but they may also use abandoned hawk or crow's nests. The Barred Owl is similar in appearance only to the Spotted Owl and is unlikely to be confused with any other owl. There are some distinct differences that make these two owls distinguishable though. The most visual distinction is that the Barred Owl has brown vertical streaks on its underside where the Spotted Owl has short brown horizontal bars (and spots on its crown). The Barred Owl has an extremely varied diet composed mostly of small mammals, especially small rodents, along with a good percentage of birds up to the size of a pheasant. Their diet is virtually identical to their close but smaller relative the Spotted Owl (Barred Owl is 17-24 inches in length and the Spotted Owl is 16.5-19 inches) giving it an advantage where the territories have begun to significantly overlap in recent history. Once common only in the east, the Barred Owl's range is expanding west, now all the way to the north-west coast of North America, and scientist believe it may be displacing its slightly smaller cousin, the Spotted Owl.
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