Teleidoscope

Sat, Nov 03, 2007

Owl

Posted at 11:14 pm MDT to Miscellaneous

This evening as I left the house a huge owl flew up and perched on the power pole by my driveway. I couldn't see details: it was mostly a silhouette against the twilight sky, but I could tell that it was turning its head this way and that, looking around. Probably looking and listening for mice and bunnies.

It must have been a Great Horned Owl. There is nothing else that big. And horned. The pole is about 20 feet tall and the owl was at least a couple of feet from the tips of its 'ears' to the end of its tail.

It flew away when I started the truck.

I've never seen an owl before in all the years I've lived here, though I've heard them occasionally. I'm not outside much after dark.

I've seen plenty of hawks and eagles and ravens over the years. And skeins of wild geese flying over, yelping like the Gabriel Hounds.

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