Mike Callahan, a naturalist from the Nanjemoy Creek Environmental Education Center, organized the event. I met Mike during Earth Day at the State Department, back when Colin Powell was there, and then saw him again at the Patuxent Research Refuge during the Rachel Carson centennial events. He invited me to this, the last banding event of the season. This one was held at the farm of Rick Wathen in La Plata, Maryland. The owls had been born on June 7 and we watched while the two surviving young were banded. They were much larger than I expected! One of them hissed like a snake much of the time and was pretty ornery, even pooping on poor Michael. The other was pretty sedate most of the time, closing his or her eyes almost as if that might make us go away.
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