Fenimore said golf courses offer the type of habitat the owls like. Outside owls' burrowing holes, sometimes bones of small animals can be found. But I've never been that close. That's just what I've been told. Recently, the Choctawhatchee Audobon Society has found four of the burrowing animals on the Eglin grounds.
Volunteers are still continuing to look for more, they say.
We're curious to find out if they've been here for a long time, why there are not more of them and if the population is down to four owls. We hope to be able to answer these questions and more. Fenimore said anyone who believes they have found the owls, which may live in flat, low-vegetation areas of Destin and South Walton, can write to the Choctawhatchee Audobon Society at P.O. Box 1014, Fort Walton Beach, FL 32549.