|
|
|
|
Joined: Aug 2002
Posts: 37,909 Likes: 2
Campfire 'Bwana
|
Campfire 'Bwana
Joined: Aug 2002
Posts: 37,909 Likes: 2 |
![[Linked Image from i.imgur.com]](https://i.imgur.com/amCQVic.jpg) Given the time of day, and the impression of size, I think it's an owl. Got another mystery bird pic on another card I'll put up shortly Prob’ly an owl, no idea of species. If it’s as wooded as it looks a barn owl is less likely, they hunt open country. Actually I’m gonna guess smaller, just looks it to me: eastern screech owl. https://www.birdnote.org/explore/sights-sounds/photo/2018/11/eastern-screech-owl-approach
"...if the gentlemen of Virginia shall send us a dozen of their sons, we would take great care in their education, instruct them in all we know, and make men of them." Canasatego 1744
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Sep 2008
Posts: 15,552 Likes: 2
Campfire Ranger
|
|
Campfire Ranger
Joined: Sep 2008
Posts: 15,552 Likes: 2 |
One nice big one here - deadly hunter. It nabbed our local roadrunner - no critter is picking up the rodents I trap, for the time being. Wish the owl would eat recently dead stuff - need a new roadrunner,.
NRA Member - Life, Benefactor, Patron
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: May 2002
Posts: 15,600 Likes: 1
Campfire Ranger
|
|
OP
Campfire Ranger
Joined: May 2002
Posts: 15,600 Likes: 1 |
Not really woods right there, that's just some scrub at the edge of the adjacent property. There's a smallish wood lot a quarter mile south of us, and a wooded ridge stretching several miles to our south and east. Also an uncut ridge head a mile to our north, with fingers extending south. Great horned and barred owls are common here. The barn owls are supposed to be around but I don't see them. I don't think the barn owls are as common here, as some county extension office made a deal of it when they found a nest in an abandoned barn a few years back.
"Chances Will Be Taken"
|
|
|
|
|
546 members (12344mag, 10gaugemag, 1beaver_shooter, 1badf350, 1234, 219DW, 67 invisible),
2,858
guests, and
1,158
robots. |
|
Key:
Admin,
Global Mod,
Mod
|
|
|
Forums81
Topics1,192,312
Posts18,487,270
Members73,968
| |
Most Online11,491
Jul 7th, 2023
|
|
|
|
|
|
