Eastern Screech owl in my yard

[megavites]

So a few nights ago I hear birds going on alarm and I hear this sound I don't recognize. Two nights later I hear it again, right around dusk and put two and two together and determine its an

Eastern Screech Owl. Haven't seen him yet but I know what tree he's in. Heard the whinny and twill sounds...

https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Eastern_Screech-Owl/sounds

Owls are one of the coolest birds!

Edited August 4, 2019 by megavites

[Buck154]

They are ver cool birds. When I was a kid a friend of the family found one that got clipped by a car and couldn't fly. We keeped it for a couple weeks till it got back in good health and could fly again. When we let hi out he hung outside the house for 2 days before leaving. Awesome bird

[Rusty]

Their call is quite unique, they are cool little birds.  

[Shootemandmountem]

Very Cool!

[RPK0620]

There used to be a horse farm next to us with a few outbuildings and I guess the mice and whatever critters were plentiful in the fields surrounding them.  At night owls, I don't know what kind, used to sit in the trees along the edge of the field and watch and then select a mouse or two for dinner. They would hoot during the night and it was a wonderful sound to listen to.  The horses are gone, the fields are now mowed grass and the owls and their sounds are gone.

[Kype]

i love owls. they are so cool. couple years ago i had a baby owl in one of my trees. also saw one fly down right at dusk while in the deer stand one year. it was better to look at then seeing a deer walk by. 

[madeinuk]

I witnessed an adult teaching its young to hunt one evening while enjoying a nice dark rum on the front porch - very cool experience and one that I will treasure for life.