Tag: owls

Great Horned Owl — On Guard!

You may enlarge any image in this blog by clicking on it. Click again for a detailed view. I’ve posted relatively frequently about Great Horned Owls and I’m sure that I’ve mentioned more than once that these big raptors are devoted parents. Today’s post illustrates just how devoted they are.

Western Screech Owls — A Family Portrait

You may enlarge any image in this blog by clicking on it. Click again for a detailed view. My friend Sam has a family of Western Screech Owls residing in his yard. I recently went to his house in order to make a family portrait. Here it is, depicting Mom

Great Horned Owls in the Neighborhood

You may enlarge any image in this blog by clicking on it. Click again for a detailed view. A friend told me that there was a family of Great Horned Owls in his neighborhood consisting of a pair of adults plus three newly fledged offspring. I went there for a

Great Horned Owl – Madonna and Child

You may enlarge any image in this blog by clicking on it. Click again for a detailed view. Today, an image of a Great Horned Owl with her newly hatched offspring. The hatchling is the grayish-white ball of fluff just to the left of the owl and barely above the

Burrowing Owl — A Backwards Glance

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

Sleeping Western Screech Owl

You may enlarge any image in this blog by clicking on it. Click again for a detailed view. Today I’m posting an image of a Western Screech Owl. A friend gave me a tip about the owl’s location in a riparian area in a mountain canyon near Tucson. The owl was right

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