Christie,
Maybe your owls are just a mixed-race couple. :-)
I had a red Screech Owl in my back yard "sharing" a hole in a red maple with
gray squirrels! Well, not exactly sharing but the owl would be there for a
few months and then suddenly he would be gone and the squirrels moved in.
This went on for several years until early 2008 when a wind storm blew the
tree apart. The hole is still there but now there is no roof! When the
leaves fall off I will be watching to see if anything uses the damaged
apartment. I had not thought of putting up a nest box. That might bring my
owl back. Has anyone ever heard of this kind of condo sharing?
Nancy Young
Botetourt County
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Subject: [Va-bird] screech owl question
About a month ago i started seeing a red screech owl in a nesting box in our
driveway - last winter this box was occupied by a gray screech - then about
2 weeks ago there was a gray screech looking out of the box , and i saw the
gray there 2 days ago- now tonight the red screech is there peering out -
does anyone know if screeches would share a box and if red and gray would do
so? christie huffman
