Great-horned Owl - 4 takes

This morning for over an hour I couldn't locate any of the owls at Harrison Hills Park. Then when I was about to go to my car, I heard one solitary robin making a call note. Indeed it turned out that she was near this young owl. It was luck that I saw him before I left the park. These young owls are flying to different places, further than before.

backlighting a spider web

Young Owl - June 23 - Wallpaper

Young Owl pics- June 23

Young Owl - June 23

June 23, the young Great-horned Owls are still growing.

Great-horned Owl adult

June 25 - she was rather hard to locate in the dense foliage of the red oak tree.

deep in the woods

Interesting plants

These interesting plants were along the trail, low to the ground. Anyone know what they are?

Owl - June 20th

Sometimes they are really hard to spot, they hide in the canopy of the trees so well, like this photo..

Owl - June 18th

I was walking up the trail, and he was just sitting there - amazing!

I see you too

June 17 - the adult

I see you

June 14 -- Can't hide

Young owl, June 11

June 11th - young owl

Great-horned Owl

Another view of the adult, Apr 27th

possible nest

April 27: This nest was right over the location where I first saw the owls.

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And down on the ground Spring Beauty was in bloom...

Damselfly in the woods

Great-horned Owl parent

June 8th at Harrison Hills -- The adult is still there near the two immature infants.

Chipmunk

Chipmunk - there are lots of these in the woods, and they make a lot of noise this time of year.

Young owls, June 6 & 7

Owls May 22

Another shot from May 22

Spider

When I first saw the owls at the end of April/beginnig of May, there were no spider webs. But now, wow, you walk into them all the time.

Great-horned Owl chick

Well it's hardly a chick anymore. On this day I saw the owls fly from the ground when I entered the woods way off in the distance. They ended up on different trees down the valley at Harrison Hills Park. It was June 1st, 2011. After I went down the valley I heard blue jays, robins, and other adults yelling at this young owl. So I walked up this hill which was farther away than other times I found them. They are flying much better now. I wonder if they are hunting yet? I still do see the adult, though.

Right after I took this photo, the owl flew off back to the valley.

Owls together

One of the last days the young owls were still together at Harrison Hills Park on a limb. Every day after that they would always be apart and very difficult to find. Only if adult song birds are yelling at them did I find them after this.

Red-bellied Woodpecker nest