Date: 9/4/24 9:23 pm From: Marcus via groups.io <scrod2000...> Subject: [EBB-Sightings] Pleasanton Barn Owl
Tonight around 8:20 pm driving out of the Thermo Fisher campus to Sunol Rd when a barn owl flew in about 15 feet in front and above my car for a few wing beats before going up and landing on a light pole. Big one. Hopefully will dine on ground squirrel.
The local ground squirrel population exploded this past year and the numbers indicate a distinct lack of apex predators. The barn owls have always been around but the hawks and falcons haven't been around much this year.
Marcus Pun
Video Editor / Producer/Editor / Camera
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Oakland, CA
