I was making pumpkin walnut muffins yesterday when I looked out the window and discovered I had more than the usual number of big corvids out there. Four ravens and five black-billed magpies, to be exact, were quietly (?) perched on one of my spruce trees.
Grabbing my camera and bins, I quickly went out onto the back deck. All the corvids flew away, but by then I had seen why they were there.
Hmm, well yes it is an owl, but what kind of owl?
Back into the house for my snow boots, and I tramped through the snow to get closer. Oh – that kind of owl!
Wow!! How exciting…a Great Horned!! You lucky thing!