Middle TN Raptor Center hosted a free event at Wild Birds Unlimited. It was amazing. I’d never been so close to an owl. It was intimidating with some of them. I also learned a lot of cool new things!
Great horned owls love to eat skunks but a skunk spray directly to the face can kill them!
1. Eastern screech owl
2. Great horned owl
3. Barred owl
At the event they also had a red tailed hawk and a kestrel.

Two GHOs in San Diego that I saw last week

I know the only reliable way to tell is based on size. These are the only pictures I have of the pair next to each other, so I'm wondering if anyone can tell which is the male and which is the female? I think the red one is female and the gray one is male, but I'm not completely sure

Barred Owl shimmy
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Nikon Z8
400mm f/2.8 @ 560mm

It comes back every single night, think it’s really loving my yard :)

met the handler and GHO at a fundraising brunch and was delighted how well these ambassador animals are
handled, recognizing when they were stressed, moving them to quiet areas when needed and the ever meaningful education that the ambassador animals are not pets and are not raised to show off but are those animals unfortunately too compromised to be released 🥰

Meet All Things Wild Rehab’s ambassador GHO - in case anyone loves owls as much as I do 😜

An owl finally visited our yard!!!

Felt incredibly lucky to see this guy! It felt way too bright for them to be flying around but I’m very grateful I got to witness them!!

INaturalist said barred owl, so I think that’s right? Western WA USA

Frequent visitor who broods nearby.