Thursday, July 28, 2011

Return of the owls, Part 1



On Tuesday the 26th, I discovered the great horned owls were back roosting at the marsh. I first saw the juvenile pair sitting side by side on a snag where the wood duck nesting boxes are located. They then flew over to perch in a spruce tree, and when I moved to get a closer look I noticed that their mother was sitting in a pine tree alongside the spruce. As I watched them, the smaller of the offspring kept looking toward its mother, making soft rheee sounds. When I saw it scrunch down, I knew it was about to take off, so held my shutter button down...(cont...)

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