Give a Hoot: ; Tiny Owls Migration Draws Visitors to Valley Falls State Park in Marion County
Charleston Gazette › December 02, 2011
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FAIRMONT - The toot-toot-tooting of a northern saw-whet owl droned into the night sky from a recording being played on a boom box placed near a series of mist nets on a north-facing ridge at Valley Falls State Park.
A group of 14 park visitors clutching flashlights or wearing battery-powered headlamps followed Joey Herron along the drier half of a seldom-traveled dirt road past the disc player to a mist net in which a tiny northern saw-whet owl was entangled.See the full content of this document
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Give a Hoot: ; Tiny Owls Migration Draws Visitors to Valley Falls State Park in Marion County
"Looks like we may be lucky tonight," said Herron, as he helped West Virginia University graduate student Milu Karp free the diminutive bird of prey from the delicate webbing on the first net- checking session of the evening.
As Karp and Herron took pains to gingerly untangle the owl, visitors took phot...See the full content of this document
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