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CHICAGO — A Chicago-area photographer and birder captured a most unusual sighting — an owl swimming (yes, swimming) in Lake Michigan.

Steve Spitzer was at Loyola Park Beach in Chicago’s Rogers Park neighborhood when he saw something in the lake. He met another birder who said it was an owl. The Great Horned Owl was apparently forced down into Lake Michigan by two Peregrine Falcons.

Spitzer captured video and photos of the owl, but he didn’t take any of the falcon attack. He and others at the beach were busy trying to scare the falcons away. Spitzer said bird rescue was called to the scene, but the owl flew away.



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Boy, a horned owl is a pretty good sized bird to be forced anywhere. We had one where we lived and it got a lot of cats over the winter.

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These falcons are about the size of a crow.

One falcon can be dangerous but two? I can see the owl being forced down.

What amazes me is that it is not a water fowl but it knew how to swim. That is awesome.



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