Jan 102010
 

Photographed yesterday at “Bald Eagle Days” at the Quad City Expo Center. This little feller has a cuteness quotient that’s off the charts.

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There were a number of other birds on display, including a peregrine falcon, a barn owl, a Golden Eagle and a Bald Eagle. When  the staff started gathering up the Bald Eagle, it flapped its wings and got a bit theatrical… at which the screech owl perked up a tad.

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 Posted by at 9:19 am

  7 Responses to “Screech Owl”

  1. You should get one of those as a pet…it would really baffle the cats. 🙂

  2. I had a close encounter like with a trained Saker falcon which was employed for bird control. Watching it eat its meal of chicken strips was a pretty blunt reminder of how the real world works.

    Jim

  3. Imagine it _killing_ a chicken sometime. 🙂
    Here’s a cute photo of a screech owl chick I came across today:
    http://www.itsnature.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/screech-owl04fledgling.jpg
    I didn’t realize they could elevate their “horns” like the one does in Scott’s photos. I wonder if that is just for display, or if it has something to do with shading their eyes when they are looking at something intently.

  4. That looks like a rufous-morph Western Screech Owl, Megascops kennicottii.

  5. Oh, that’s just adorable!

    Thank you for showing us!

    😉

  6. > it would really baffle the cats.

    Not for long. They’d tangle.

  7. And the cat would be goin’ “FUUUUUUUUUU….” 🙂

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