Great-horned Owl - 4 takes

This morning for over an hour I couldn't locate any of the owls at Harrison Hills Park. Then when I was about to go to my car, I heard one solitary robin making a call note. Indeed it turned out that she was near this young owl. It was luck that I saw him before I left the park. These young owls are flying to different places, further than before.

backlighting a spider web

Young Owl - June 23 - Wallpaper

Young Owl pics- June 23

Young Owl - June 23

June 23, the young Great-horned Owls are still growing.

Great-horned Owl adult

June 25 - she was rather hard to locate in the dense foliage of the red oak tree.

Friends of Harrison Hills: Interesting plants

Friends of Harrison Hills: Interesting plants: "These interesting plants were along the trail, low to the ground. Anyone know what they are?"

Indian Pipes, I think.

deep in the woods

Interesting plants

These interesting plants were along the trail, low to the ground. Anyone know what they are?

Owl - June 20th

Sometimes they are really hard to spot, they hide in the canopy of the trees so well, like this photo..

Owl - June 18th

I was walking up the trail, and he was just sitting there - amazing!

I see you too

June 17 - the adult

I see you

June 14 -- Can't hide

Young owl, June 11

June 11th - young owl

Great-horned Owl

Another view of the adult, Apr 27th

possible nest

April 27: This nest was right over the location where I first saw the owls.

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And down on the ground Spring Beauty was in bloom...

Damselfly in the woods

Great-horned Owl parent

June 8th at Harrison Hills -- The adult is still there near the two immature infants.

Chipmunk

Chipmunk - there are lots of these in the woods, and they make a lot of noise this time of year.

Young owls, June 6 & 7

Owls May 22

Another shot from May 22

Spider

When I first saw the owls at the end of April/beginnig of May, there were no spider webs. But now, wow, you walk into them all the time.

Great-horned Owl chick

Well it's hardly a chick anymore. On this day I saw the owls fly from the ground when I entered the woods way off in the distance. They ended up on different trees down the valley at Harrison Hills Park. It was June 1st, 2011. After I went down the valley I heard blue jays, robins, and other adults yelling at this young owl. So I walked up this hill which was farther away than other times I found them. They are flying much better now. I wonder if they are hunting yet? I still do see the adult, though.

Right after I took this photo, the owl flew off back to the valley.

Owls together

One of the last days the young owls were still together at Harrison Hills Park on a limb. Every day after that they would always be apart and very difficult to find. Only if adult song birds are yelling at them did I find them after this.

Red-bellied Woodpecker nest