You may enlarge any image in this blog by clicking on it. Click again for a detailed view. Lately, I’ve been keeping an eye on a pair of Burrowing Owls, and in this image they’re obviously keeping an eye on me. It’s breeding season for these birds and shortly, the
You may enlarge any image in this blog by clicking on it. Click again for a detailed view. I sometimes forget how very different birds’ anatomy is from our own. Birds possess some remarkable adaptations that they have evolved over more than 150 million years, adaptations that make them uniquely
You may enlarge any image in this blog by clicking on it. Click again for a detailed view. It’s breeding season for Burrowing Owls and they’ve become very active recently. I’m accumulating a fair number of images of them. Here’s an image that I made a few days ago. The
You may enlarge any image in this blog by clicking on it. Click again for a detailed view. We humans tend to attribute human characteristics to many of the life forms that we encounter. We think of animal behavior in human terms when, to the animal, the behavior means something
You may enlarge any image in this blog by clicking on it. Click again for a detailed view. Most owl species don’t build their own nests. They appropriate nests built by other birds or they lay their eggs in some location that they find to be acceptable. Great Horned Owls,
You may enlarge any image in this blog by clicking on it. Click again for a detailed view. I photographed this Burrowing Owl yesterday morning. I think that she’s a female due to her relatively dark plumage. I was very pleased to see her. It’s been a few month since
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