Feathered friends

[TheGreekTitan]

That is Awesome!!! Looks like a little Ewok.

[kingbeefy]

Really cool.

[CoventryCat86]

WOW! I love owls, we have lots of Bard Owls around here, hootin' 'n hollerin' at night. Back in '02 when I was campaigning with a guy who was running for office, we were visiting people's houses and on a long driveway into the woods one afternoon, there was a huge, Great Horned Owl like yours up in a big ole pine tree staring us down. Then he took off and WOW, what a wing span on that guy.

Great picture!

[Mizicke5273]

Who talks about owls and then posts a picture of tree branches..........oh.....wait, I see it now.

[badwhale]

Great pic, and congrats on the resident!

[CptnBlues63]

Very cool Jamie!

I'm a big fan of all raptors but really like owls. Prior to moving where I am now, the wife and I were living on an acreage 30 miles out of the city I was working in. Twice I had to call the electricity people to come out and reset our power because a young owl had landed on the transformer in our yard and shorted it out............dying in the process

I get some excellent pic's of owls while out hunting most every year and a couple years back, even got some pic's of a burrowing owl.

[ggiese]

Earlier in my LE days I was called to handle a "bird" complaint. When I got there I found an owl standing in front of the complainants house. Long story short - there was a small foot pursuit (the owl could not fly) that resulted in me capturing the little critter. I took him to a local nature rescue center and was told it was very likely the bird was "domesticated" (e.g. had been living in someone's house). They suspected the "owner" had found it as a chick and raised it. The only trouble - the owl is protected and whomever had it was likely to face some serious federal consquences (we never located the "owner")...

My favorite recollection of the encounter. It was the first time I chased something that was looking me square in the eye the whole time it was running away (the owl had it's head completely swiveled backwards looking at me). It was freaky!