Owl

[eyeguy 54]

There's a Great Grey about 30 feet from my back window. Cool!! Watching with binos and it's just looking from side to side. Maybe looking for a snack.

[Rick G]

I know it's dark out, but where is the pic?

[eyeguy 54]

lol ! nice and bright with the snow. saw the silhouette and grabbed the binos. I was actually thinking of a long shutter shot with the zoom but didn't want to scare it away. it stayed almost an hour.

[eyeguy 54]

I'm thinking it was a long eared owl.

[Shack]

We have been visited this spring/late winter by a nesting pair of owls.

Just noticed them the other day and I have been the unlucky one to get a clear view of them to decipher which species they are. Not the biggest nest we have had in our back woods (peregrine falcon nest which was destroyed in a storm around 2005) but it is cropped up quick:

I think mother is in the nest but is hunkered down. The nest is about 60'-70' feet up.

Hopefully get an ID of which species it is in the next couple days. The male is very active just before sundown and early morning.