Category: Owls

  • A screech owl got trapped in a chimney. Peering up with a flashlight, residents glimpsed the little owl, but when they got close, it hopped higher, onto the fire box, out of reach.   I thought I heard a still, small voice in the grass, saying “Eat me! Eat me!” One resident called around for…

  • Sometimes you see a barn and you know it has owls.  This one is airy, with many escape  routes. As we walked to the door, a barn owl (Tyto alba) silently flew out. A helpful person had put up an owl box. Owls had accepted it. Not recently, judging by the size of the charnel…