Rare northern hawk-owl in Dutch city

This video from Canada says about itself:

Northern Hawk Owl

Grand Valley and Larsen Pasture Roads, near the gate of Direct Energy (north access) gas well, NW of Cochrane, Alberta – April 20, 2012.

Recently, there was a report on this blog, about a Finnish canoeist saving a drowning northern hawk-owl.

Today, more northern hawk-owl news: an individual of this species, very rare in western Europe, is now in Zwolle city in the Netherlands.

Dutch Bird Alerts reports that it is easiest to see the bird from the local BP petrol station.

Let us all hope that the owl will not drown in BP oil, like happened to Gulf of Mexico seabirds …

Here is a photo of birdwatchers which came to see this bird.

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