Baby Great Horned Owl, first day seen in the nest!
We have been checking at the "owl area" in a park locally for several weeks now, and hardly any signs of the owls until lately, - we'd even begun to think they might no longer be there. But this evening we lucked out, and some regular owl watchers who live closer to the park than we do, and who have been watching with binoculars every day, showed us where the nest is this year, which is in a different tree than where I captured images 2 years ago. The nest is much higher up in the cottonwood tree than the nest 2 years ago.
We saw only 2 baby owls, usually there are 3, but a 3rd, smaller owl might emerge later. The mother owl was close by on another branch, watching her youngsters. And Papa owl was in another tree.
