This is the mama owl
Baby owlA couple of days ago I heard something that sounded like an animal in distress. I thought it might be a baby deer that had lost it's mother or something. We have seen several tiny baby deer around here this week. Some look as if they were just a few hours old. Last night Don and I were sitting outside on the back porch when I heard the sound again, except this time it was coming from one of our cottonwood trees about 15 yards from us. We finally saw that there were two owls in the tree. Don did the research to find which kind of owl we had. And after listening to several breeds, we agreed that we had a pair of the Western Screech Owls. I think it must be a mama owl and one of her babies. My scientific conclussion is that she was trying to teach her baby to fly. The both finally flew to another tree after about 15-20 minutes. The pictures aren't so great due to the fact it was getting pretty dark out and I didn't want to use a flash and scare them off.
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