In pursuit of rare owls in Glacier National Park
Homer, a great gray owl at Montana Wild Wings. Biologists in Glacier National Park are looking to learn more about the park's great gray and boreal owls. (Daily Inter Lake file photo)
Glacier National Park biologist Lisa Bate and volunteer Gerard Byrd head out on Lincoln Lake Trail in search of owls. (Jeremy Weber/Daily Inter Lake)
Gerard Byrd and Jeremy Weber take a break on their way up the Lincoln Lake Trail in search of owls in Glacier National Park. (Lisa Bate photo)
Glacier National Park biologist Lisa Bate and volunteer Gerard Byrd use headlamps to help program and set up an automatic recording unit as part of of boreal owl and great gray owl study. (Jeremy Weber/Daily Inter Lake)
Glacier National Park biologist Lisa Bate and volunteer Gerard Byrd fight the darkness to set up equipment as part of a boreal owl and great gray owl study. (Jeremy Weber/Daily Inter Lake)
The air is unusually still and only silence flows through the star-lit trees around us as we sit in darkness deep in the forest of Glacier National Park. The temperature has dropped to 20 degrees as midnight approaches while the three of us wait high above Lake McDonald, a few miles up the Lincoln Lake Trail...
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