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[hellziggy]

As I mentioned briefly (cuz I've been an LJ slacker lately, yo) I went birding with BirdChick last Friday. Our last stop before heading our separate ways was Wood Lake Nature Center down in Richfield. There were reports of a Great Horned Owl nesting in a squirrel nest.
We thought the wind was nasty. She must have just been hating life up there in the tree!
We only saw the momma: it was probably too cold and windy for the baby to want to poke his head out.
Here's the pic I took of momma:



Today I got to leave work a little early (system was down all day. Had to use vacation time if I wanted to get paid though...) so I headed back to the Nature Center to see if I could get a better picture of her now that it was sunny and not windy. I didn't see momma owl at all, but her cute little fuzzy baby was in the nest:



Looking at owl pictures makes me miss my kitty-cat Cougar. *sigh*

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Hellziggy-
What are you doing up this late? Yeah, I missed the woodcocks too but I saw that you got some great bird action. It's a very cool pic of you releasing that banded hawk. You are LUCKY!!! There's another woodcock outing I think at Eastman Nature Center some evening in May. Wanna go?

[(Anonymous)]

Ooops! That's me- Lynne from Hasty Brook/New Hope in the above woodcock comment...

[hellziggy.livejournal.com]

Lynne:
Sleep is for the weak! LOL I pretty much went to bed right after posting that. Yeah, the woodcock outing sounds good. I'd just been planning to force BirdChick to take me out some evening after she gets home from Indiana. Of course, you know how hard it is to talk her into looking at birds...

[spikespet7.livejournal.com]

Lovey......Mama looks like those little things for Revenge of the Jedi and is playing peek a boo......and baby even looks soft and furry......


Kimber

[kniblet.livejournal.com]

Cute!