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Article: WATCHING SCREECH OWLS IS A HOOT, BIRD ENTHUSIAST IN ALANTON FINDS.(VIRGINIA BEACH BEACON)
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- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- March 20, 1996
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Byline: Mary Reid Barrow
Folks like me wait for hummingbirds to return in spring. Others keep a watch out for bluebirds, but Earl Keegan is the only person I know who looks forward to the arrival of the screech owls.
The Alanton resident has had screech owls nesting in three boxes in his yard for at least three years now. About five years ago, he built the boxes out of rough cut cedar, according to screech owl specifications, and nailed the boxes 15 to 20 feet up in pine trees in his yard.
Keegan is a retired Navy pilot but he has a degree in forestry, which must be why he wasn't dissuaded from nailing a box 20 feet up in a tree. That's ...