As always, great photos Jim. I want to share a story of one of the most exciting things I’ve ever done.  Working with a biologist and his assistant I helped capture a male GHOW at Crane Beach in Ipswich Ma. There was a pair decimating the nest eggs of the endangered Piping Plovers on the barrier beach and the goal was to rehome them. We went out into the pine barrens in the dunes at dusk on ATV’s where a baffled net was set up along with a taxidermied owl and a recording of the male GHOW.  We waited nearby with night vision goggles, heavy leather gloves, and a plan. When night fell we started the audio recording and caught quite a few bats. At midnight we increased the volume of the audio and within minutes the owl was calling back from nearby. Quickly it rushed at the stuffed owl and into the net.  All plans fell apart as we ran to the tangled owl! His feet were held together as we untangled him and got him into the cage without injury. He was tall and stoic, staring and alert: magnificent.  He and his mate were successfully rehomed to western Massachusetts. My experience in the dunes that night was more exciting than the 20 plus years I spent working as a Paramedic in urban Massachusetts.
> On Mar 20, 2018, at 7:19 AM, Jim Block <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> There have been Great Horned Owls around.
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> Here are some in Brookfield VT in 2016:    https://www.jimblockphoto.com/2016/04/great-horned-owl/ <https://www.jimblockphoto.com/2016/04/great-horned-owl/>
> And some in Hanover in 2012:   https://www.jimblockphoto.com/2012/05/great-horned-owl-chick/ <https://www.jimblockphoto.com/2012/05/great-horned-owl-chick/>
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> Jim Block
> Etna, NH
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> From: Upper Valley Birders [mailto:[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>] On Behalf Of Ted Levin
> Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2018 5:36 AM
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> Subject: Re: [UVB] Great Horned Owl, Orford
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> In the seventies, they nested in Hanover on the Sewage Treatment property, between Mink Brook and the CT River. I haven’t seen (or heard) them in Hanover since then. 
> I flushed one off a skunk on George’s Pond in Enfield Center in the early eighties; my last great horned owl in the UV.
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> I’ve always wonder why they are so scarce up here.
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> Ted
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> On Mar 20, 2018, at 5:27 AM, Jeff MacQueen <[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:
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>> I heard a GHOW calling somewhere to the east of Mt. Cube before dawn this morning. This is only the second time in twenty years I’ve heard one from my property. I have them almost every year on River Road, and in the past along Route 10 in the north end of town. 
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