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

barn owl.

Immature GHO.

Looks like.an owl to me.

I kept finding fur and feathers in the yard and wondered what was getting them. Then I saw the GH owl on my roof one night recently.

I wish he'd get rid of the neighbors cats!

Haint.

No Idea on these 2 pics. All are from my yard in NW Illinois

Well, you wont be bothered with wild turkeys.

Top is bluejay. Bottom is dimocrap tracks.

Busy place, lately

northern barn owls are some big SOBs

especially when they have their wings spread out

Barn Owls can make some pretty big nests, too. We had one that had a big nest built high up in a huge ancient oak tree in the woods back behind our house when we lived out in the country. It used to cruise our backyard at night for rabbits. The rabbits would come eat apples that fell from our apple trees and the barn owl would kill and carry them back to it's nest. It would always rip the heads off and leave it laying and carry the headless carcass away.

Mothman

had for a pet when I was a teen, got it out of a nest in a deer blind.

Deer. Just trying to help.

Yup.

Can't see if it had glowing eyes, but
If it was in West Virginia, it's definitely moth man.

So that's why I occasionally see turkey feathers.
That's a shame. I wouldn't mind some cat hair.

Would not bet on an ID based on either image.

A daylight Barn Owl.



Don't have a similar flight image of a Great Horned.



If one has Great Horns around, he should be hearing them, as Feb is the territory lock down and breeding month. Nesting and eggs in March.

Commonly see and hear both barred and great horned owls in the neighborhood. Barn owls are around, supposedly, but I don't think I've ever laid eyes on one. I hear what I think are some of the smaller owls around but have only seen a very few in my time.

Yellow wash on flanks, greyish overall, no wing/tail markings visible, clearly a songbird. NW Illinios is February. I’m going with female American goldfinch.

https://www.riveroflifefarm.com/female-american-goldfinch-in-landing-position/

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

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,.

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.