JP Myers 1976 Asio flammeus GRID 2, Barrow, AK 7 June 1600 saw first display of 5 territorial 8's - they have been here in draws ever since we arrived (see Journal entries, Daily List) but the only sign of breeding activity had been a few 8's in horizontal (butterfly) flight - a wing movement not unlike the 8 Nycka as it displays to 2, but up to the terminal dracula display. But one 8' this pm was diving over Village Ridge from a height of several hundred feet, rising, and then whuffling down again at great velocity, twisting as it dove, turning from side to side in a powerdive. 10 June 5 displaying short-eareds!! PAP mapped them out distributed over Village ridge. As I was tracking mule deer on grid 2 one kept displaying - swooping, wing clapping wings + diving over the grid. Diving at a Nycka, harassing prairie jaegers, and diving at PAP. The 8 makes a repeated growling call as it dives and balks as it flops about. The display every bat is pronouncedly different as it beats from horizontal ~ to vertical. 8 in a slow butterfly-like pattern - 1-2 wing beats/second. Call I dictated on tape as circa between growl & angered cat's mew. 17 June territorial 8's dispersed all over the area, 2 on gas-line, perhaps 1 or 2 on Beach Ridge north of Central Marsh Slough.