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spotted this guy on the burnt stick road near Caroline , Alberta, Canada. not the sharpest picture but still worth a post I guess
Barred Owl (Strix varia) photographed on the corner of Herons Hideout and Shady Oaks Trails in Circle B Bar Resere located in Lakeland in Polk County Florida U.S.A.
I really enjoyed sitting into the forest listening to the Tawny Owls call to each other - two individuals came to our hide on this night - we could see them sitting in trees on opposite sides of the clearing - they took it in turns to come in. Perhaps an established pair.
The LED lighting in the hide was much improved this time - much more even.
Even though he looks like he is sleeping, he is hooting very loudly in this captured moment. His mouth is wide open and his throat is bulging with air. He is calling to his mate. I could hear her response. I think she was answering from the nest site which I hope is across a nearby creek in an inaccessible location.
This owl was in a tree right beside a walking trail. If he hadn't hooted so loudly, I would not have spotted him. I watched him for about a half an hour and he never did open his eyes.
Edmonton, Alberta. April 02 1014.
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Sc Name: Strix seloputo
Taken @ Pasir Ris Park
A local celebrity that I will definitely visit when I come here
Spotted owl fledgling
iPhone thru binoculars
Out of respect to the owls and the person who shared their location, I have held back on posting this shot from August. Without giving away the location, Spotted Owls are found in mature forests, in this case redwood, bay laurel and tan oak. Their prey is the Dusky-footed Woodrat. This owl does not migrate and cannot survive outside of old growth forests - when forests are cut down the owl has nowhere to live. Barred Owls are displacing them as well, putting these spirits of the deep woods under that much more pressure. The population is listed as near-threatened, but that understates the problem. The fragmenting of old growth stands puts each isolated population at risk.
I heard that some aggressive photographers had found this family and were tramping cross country to get shots, disturbing the owls at dusk when they feed. No photo is worth stressing the subject. This little one had decided to perch next to a well-used public trail, sitting so still no one out walking their dogs (off leash in a posted leash only area!) even noticed it.
Prairie Creek Redwood State Park, California. The Gray Ghost is the perfect nickname for this huge owl, This photo was taken in very low light as it entered its realm, one that does not include us photo hungry humans! Not as nice as some of the photos of this bird making their way onto Flickr, but lighting was poor, fog was dense and it was all I could get. The last I had seen was in 1981, of the recently described endemic Sierra Great Gray Owl (Sttrix nebulosa yosemitensis). If interested in reading the paper that describes this new subspecies: www.vetmed.ucdavis.edu/vgl/wildlife/pdfs/GGOW-NewSubspp_H...
Barred owls nested in my neighborhood again this year, but I never figured out where the nest was located. We frequently heard the pair calling, and at times the male would spend the day sleeping in a pine tree along the edge of my front yard. Sometimes small birds or crows would discover it there and raise quite a fuss for a while, but the owl seemed quite content to just ignore all the attention and stay there rather than relocate to another place. Once the pair had hungry mouths to feed, it was not unusual to see one of the birds in my yard hunting during daylight hours. During those times, the small birds would really raise hell (especially the robins), and on a couple of occasions I saw the owl flying away carrying a bird in its talons and getting chased and chastised by the angry mob of small birds.
The four barred owl shots posted today were taken during one of those daylight hunting forays. The owl was exceedingly unconcerned by me approaching it with my camera and I was able to get quite close. These shots were taken as the bird sat on the pole on the edge of my woods with the nest box where screech owls used to nest. The screech owls have not been seen since the barred owls moved into the neighborhood a few years ago. As the owl sat on the post, it alternated between alertly scanning the area for something it might catch and falling asleep. I came to the conclusion that feeding hungry youngsters sometimes required overtime hours in order to meet their needs, and that the tired parent was really wanting to get some sleep rather than spend more time on food duty.
Spotted Wood Owl (Strix seloputo seloputo), Pasir Ris, Singapore
Ebird checklist:
ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S26552600
The spotted wood owl (Strix seloputo) is an owl of the earless owl genus, Strix. Its range is strangely disjunct; it occurs in many regions surrounding Borneo, but not on that island itself.
Source: Wikipedia