The oaks behind the house, to the north, might have a nested pair of horned owls.
At least for now, both are in the picture, perched and asleep in one tree.
Getting a decently good photo from the house is tricky at about a hundred feet or so away through a kitchen window, with intervening branches in the way depending on where the camera is set up.
At -10 degrees, let hard-core bird watchers set up the tripod and all, outside. I'll be satisfied with the confirming photo, through the window, from inside with a cup of coffee on the counter.
One bird's on the branch, the other at the branch base, by the trunk.
If they'd have a nest already with eggs or a hatchling, one would likely be there tending the nest. Hence, they likely are yet to nest.
They are in hunting mode as a guess. With bird feeders and corn out on the ground for some, the rabbits got fat browsing into the late evening. Fewer seem to be there over the last week or two.
It is possible there's an owl nest in that patch of woods. I'd guess it is more likely they'd be nested in trees along the wetland ditch about a quarter to half mile to the north.
The backyard woods patch is only about an acre in size, with greater acreage of woods elsewhere in the neighborhood. Three homes are sharing the woods as back-yard back edge, each about 1-1/2 acre lots.
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Fun! We had four owls talking to each other from grove to grove last night. It was so still you could hear them a mile away.
Based on the call, we think they were Great Horned, but in a group like that? Hmm.
Does anyone wonder if that is a bad omen? Or is just seeing owls bad omens? Or is it not a bad omen?
PS, forget that post you owe me on the RNC. New topics ahead.
Holly, a bad omen for crows and rabbits. Beyond that I would not speculate.
Holly, the RNC 8 is still important.
The question of right to assemble, to lawfully protest, criminalizing prior restraint on "speech" in its braodest sense, and charging something like conspiracy to attempt a criminal act - intent stated but absent any act in furtherance of crime - all that goes to how much police state power is a good/bad thing.
Not either/or, but more or less.
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