From Chris Adams
A familiar neighborhood Great Grey owl. Nicknamed “Postman” this guy for two months straight would sit on this particular fence line hunting till the sun went down. The most reliable and chill owl I’ve met to date. - in Bemidji, MN.
From Chris Adams
A familiar neighborhood Great Grey owl. Nicknamed “Postman” this guy for two months straight would sit on this particular fence line hunting till the sun went down. The most reliable and chill owl I’ve met to date. - in Bemidji, MN.
What a pretty bird. I saw an eagle owl in Berlin recently that looked a bit like this. Sitting in the sun, and part of her body was hidden like this one behind a post, so she didn’t look all that tall. Beautiful colors. They had a pure white snowy owl and a spectacled owl too. They could fly around freely in a big enclosure, which was pretty neat.
Wow, you got to see some amazing owls all at once!
The Eagle Owls still look impressively barrel-like. They are not quite as long as the Great Grey here, but the tail counts for a good bit of the differ and the Gray is more feathers than owl, so the Eagle Owl is heavier.
An all white Snowy is a mature male owl.
The Spectacled is always fun to see. I really like the color tones in person.
If you have any photos, feel free to share, but either way, I’m always glad to hear one of you has gotten to visit with some of these superb birds!
Interesting! I had no idea. He was preening himself in the sun. I got a few pictures, but they’re kind of blurry.
I would love to have gotten a picture of the spectacled owl because the colors are so striking, like you said.
The Uhu (eagle owl) had pretty orange eyes. I was hoping to see its wingspan to see how it compares to a Great Horned Owl.
The snowies are all born dark colored, then their adult feathers grow in spotted, and males will lose most of all of the spots with age.
I tried for a while to look up a source that had sizes for both GHO and Uhu, but since they’re so widespread, the ranges are so all over the place. Your average one of each is going to be 20-30% larger and heavier for Uhu if you’re comparing the same sex. Females are going to be the large ones of almost every raptor species.
Interesting, thanks for the pics! I’d never seen the babies or young birds before. They’re like the white horses, then, that are born dark and get lighter with age. Some of the Lipizzaners stay dark brown their whole life, though. They’re rare and considered to be lucky.
That is very cool about the horses! I didn’t know that.