<html class="apple-mail-supports-explicit-dark-mode"><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">I haven’t visited this year, but with all of the flooding in December I would not expect to find them. They eat mostly mice and voles. The floods most likely decimated their food source.<div><br></div><div>Normally you’d expect to see them this time of the year.</div><div><br></div><div>Zora Dermer</div><div>Seattle<br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfSignature"><div dir="ltr">Sent from my iPhone</div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Feb 10, 2026, at 6:46 AM, Mike Wagenbach via Tweeters <tweeters@u.washington.edu> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">Refresh my faulty memory, please: Are Short-Eared Owls at the Samish East 90 seasonal, or fairly constant during the year? </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">I was there briefly last week and had one cooperative owl, two harriers, a Red-Tailed Hawk, a group of 20 or so swans in the corn field and around ten Bald Eagles in trees in the distance, so a pretty good day. I'd like to go back with my adult child and a better camera.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">Mike Wagenbach</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">Seattle</div></div>
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