Great Horned Owl

Sightings from Jim Wolford posted on Nature NS
My final sighting for the day came at Freeport, about one minute after leaving the ferry from Westport (still in the Brier Island Count Circle?), I had a great and startling look at 4:40 p.m. of a huge-seeming OWL that had to be a great horned owl -- it flew over the road, from south to north, at an angle at very low elevation so that I had it in sight for several seconds as it angled away from the road, probably not far from Andy Moir's and Chris Callaghan's property. Eric & Anne Mills on Brier Island saw some Canada geese on Sunday and Monday but not on the Brier Island Count Day Tuesday. A few of my own Brier Island highlights on Tuesday included a ruby-crowned kinglet (& maybe a second one), an unidentified warbler with yellow underparts (not a yellow-rumped nor palm, maybe orange-crowned or Nashville?)(not seen well), about a dozen c. grackles, about 20 cowbirds, 1 red-winged blackbird (Westport town always has a mixed flock of blackbirds in winter), and 100+ harbour seals hauled out on rocks at low tide west of Northern Light (Eric Mills reported just harbour seals at Pond Cove with no grey seals).