The owl that has come from Riverside Park, was in a Spruce Tree today, giving great looks. Late in the afternoon, it kept its attention on two Cooper’s Hawks. Luckily, the Cooper’s Hawks left the owl in peace.

Before, fly out a Holly Tree (more of a bush) near the owl’s roost was full of singing sparrows going to roost. I said to a fellow bird watcher, “If I was an owl, all that singing would make me hungry.”

At fly out the owl went to a limb and spent about 30 minutes on a branch over a road. It was intently looking into the brush and the Holly Tree. There were two owl watchers close to where I thought the owl was looking to hunt and I asked them politely to step back a bit. They were very nice about it and moved backwards.

After about five minutes the owl went after something on the ground, missed and then few up to a limb about ten feet off the ground. Soon thereafter the owl charged into the Holly Bush, just like you might see an Cooper’s Hawk hunt. Like sparks flying off a 4th of July sparkler, waves of sparrows came streaming out of the bush. It must have been at least thirty birds. Eventually, the owl flew came out and went to a tree just under a street light.

The owl stayed put for a few minutes before flying south. It landed in a tree and then looked to go down to the ground hunting, but I couldn’t relocate it and left the park.

All told, I think we kept track of the owl for 45 minutes after fly out, which was later than normal at 5:15 pm.