Eastern Screech Owl
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JWFilips
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I will never forget the first time I saw a Saw-Whet Owl
In the early 1990's I was putting on a late season deer drive for my buddy. It was our Flintlock season. When I would drive I used a smooth bore flintlock with shot for small game! I really got into some thick crap and had to crawl through it. I finally came up in a crabapple tree stand and tried to stand up! When I did I was 12" away face to face with this little creature that was not afraid! He just blinked his eyes at me as he sat in the tree that I came up by! I must have spent 20 minutes watching him and taking to him. It was a surreal experience! Something I will never forget!
Interestingly after that we actually started hearing them on our property! Guess he passed the word around I was a good guy!
Missionary
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Do these little owls burrow in the ground? If so we have a similar owl down here in the Arequipa area.
L Ross
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No, forest habitat owls, cavity nesters in trees just like Screech Owls.
telebasher
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Any place there are praire dogs , there will be Burrowing Owls ! And rattlesnakes ! They live in the same burrows.
Missionary
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These are very small body owls. But as a typical owl they have large broad wings.
Happily we do not have rattle snakes here... That is my future AO.
Happily we do not have rattle snakes here... That is my future AO.