Night owls

[rose_cat]

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Brown Wood Owl, Toni’s Zoo, Rothenburg, Switzerland
Photo by Emmanuel Keller (Tambako the Jaguar at Flickr)

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Eurasian eagle owl Amber
GIF at Amber’s owner’s Vine

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Barn owl defending her chicks, Zoo d'Amnéville, Amnéville, France
Photo by Jean-Christophe Verhaegen

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Burrowing owl, Bertioga, Brazil
Photo by Leonardo Casadei

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Long-eared owl, Big Sioux Recreation Area, Brandon, South Dakota, USA
Photo by Terry Sohl

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Eastern screech owls Buckbeak (male, intermediate phase), Pygwidgeon (male, red phase), and Nymphadora (female, gray phase), Caitlin Dunbar Nature Center, Maryland, USA
Caitlin Dunbar Nature Center’s Facebook

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Striped owl, Paraguaçu, Brazil
Photo by Eduardo G. Banderas
(Banderas found the owl by the side of the road with a broken wing and stopped to help.)

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Ferruginous pygmy owl chicks, waiting to be returned to their nest cavity after being banded and weighed as part of a research project
Photo by Paul Bannick

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Saw-whet owl, Mountsberg Raptor Centre, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Photo by George Nagy

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Indian eagle owl, Suffolk Owl Sanctuary, Stonham Aspal, England
Photo by Nicola Matthews

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Comments

[julchen11.livejournal.com]

OMG! What a gorgeous post. I loooove owls. Were having few of them in the woods nearby and they are singing very lovely in the morning hours.
I've never seen so wonderful photos. Thanks a lot for sharing, my dear!

[rose-cat.livejournal.com]

You're welcome!

At my last home (nineteen miles south of where I live now), I could often hear great horned owls calling "WHOO-OOH-OOH" late at night. They don't seem to be in this neighborhood, but I do hear a screech owl from time to time. And I've seen barn owls flying over a couple of times when I was out late.

[julchen11.livejournal.com]

I've never seen a barn owl but I could watch an eagle owl last year. It was impressing and amazing. I did't know these birds are that big.