Spotted this magnificent creature gazing down at us this morning. Barb’s photo doesn’t begin to capture his/her (let’s go with male) majesty. We stood there for 10 minutes, silently staring at each other. He would swivel his head from left to right every so often, otherwise, oh so still.
We’ve seen him silently floating through the yard at night, dead silent. Rare to see him during the day.
We have a pair of barn owls that have been having around the past few weeks… most mornings we see them on the ground (I assume mice for breakfast), or in one of the larger trees. Pretty amazing watching them fly, but their calls are a bit terrifying, unlike the soothing “hoot” of most.