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megascops kennicottii
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Western Screech-Owl
This small nocturnal owl was hiding in a Madrone tree cavity during the day. It was sleeping at first, but I managed to get this photo with both eyes partly open. Based on range, this is the race "M. k. bendirei" found in much of lowland California west of the Sierra Nevada. It is...- jmorlan
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- 1bb california megascops kennicottii usa western screech-owl
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- Category: North America
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Western Screech-Owl
Finally was able to see one at my house!- connorco
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- california megascops kennicottii usa western screech owl
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- Category: North America
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Western Screech-Owl
It's been a while- alaskabirder
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- megascops kennicottii
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- Category: North America
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Western Screech-Owl, Great Plains
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- megascops kennicottii
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- Category: North America
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Western Screech-Owl
Taken at ISO 51,200- bobsofpa
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- megascops kennicottii
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- Category: North America
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Western Screech-Owl
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- megascops kennicottii
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- Category: North America
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Western Screech Owl
The nice result of some owling just outside our accomodation at Portal, Arizona. Cool bird.- wintibird
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- megascops kennicottii
- Comments: 4
- Category: North America
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Western Screech-Owl, Great Plains
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- megascops kennicottii
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- Category: North America
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Sleepy
One more shot of the sleepy, daytime owl. I have more, but they're all so similar. I just kept shooting because, especially at first when I was looking through those twigs, I could barely see him and wasn't sure what I was getting ;) When I sat down on the road and peered upwards, I could...- Doc Duck
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- megascops kennicottii western screech owl
- Comments: 8
- Category: North America
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I'm hidden
This was the first shot I took of whatever-it-was-just-below-that-brown-patch-on-the-treetrunk. It took me a while to be sure I was actually looking at the screech owl. I think from this angle you can see how well those ear tufts imitate the ragged bits on the bark nearby.- Doc Duck
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- megascops kennicottii western screech owl
- Comments: 11
- Category: North America
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Western Screech Owl by night
That evening I joined an owling expedition. Our guides on that one took us to likely spots, listened very carefully, and then called to engage owls in a sort of "conversation". The plan was that if an owl flew in to check us out, they would light it up with a flashlight for all to see...- Doc Duck
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- megascops kennicottii western screech owl
- Comments: 14
- Category: North America
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Western Screech Owl by day
I joined a couple of birding expeditions at the Festival of the Cranes. One went out some back roads of the Bosque del Apache National Refuge, roads not otherwise open to the public. One of our main goals was to check this hollow tree and see if an owl was there. The first time we stopped there...- Doc Duck
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- megascops kennicottii western screech owl
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- Category: North America
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Sleeping Owl
Western Screech Owl, Edgewood Park, Redwood City, CA- ag12
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- megascops kennicottii screech owl
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- Category: North America
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Western Screech Owl
Western Screech Owl, Arizona, USA Taken with Canon 7D, 500mm (1/320, f4.5, ISO 160)- nc_killie
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- megascops kennicottii western screech owl
- Comments: 5
- Category: Kowa Competition (Closed)
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Western Screech Owl
Western Screech Owl- jroselikeitis
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- megascops kennicottii western screech owl
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- Category: North America
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Coffee - Give Me Coffee
Pretty much how I look before my first wake-up-cup. This Western Screech Owl (Gray Pacific Race) took up residence in a nest box originaly placed in a pine tree for Kestrels. Oh, well. First come first served.- digishooter
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- megascops kennicottii western screech owl
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- Category: North America
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Wester Screech Owl ( fledgeling )
If my brother (who is one of the finest birders in the Valley) had not been with me, I'd never seen this bird. Notice how the color, pattern and texture of the feather nearly blend in with the bark of the tree. I walked by this bird, no more than 10 feet and never saw it until my brother...- digishooter
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- megascops kennicottii western screech owl
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- Category: North America
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Wester Screech Owl ( fledgeling )
Another in the series...- digishooter
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- megascops kennicottii western screech owl
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- Category: North America
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Wester Screech Owl ( fledgeling )
Day before yesterday, I posted an image of a female Western Screech Owl. This is one of two young birds from that female. As was stated in the post of 30/05/11, the young do not fly well, and when just out of the nest they tend not to fly at all. It is for this reason that I was able to get...- digishooter
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- megascops kennicottii western screech owl
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- Category: North America
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Western Screech Owl ( female )
This female is one that has hatched a brood of two, possibly, three young. She nested in a box provided by my brother ( he has placed boxes totaling more than 30 in habitat around the Lake Isabella area) in a thick deciduous area. The young are particularly vulnerable after leaving the nest...- digishooter
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- megascops kennicottii western screech owl
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- Category: North America
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Same Western Screech
This is the same bird that we've been photographing in our yard but with out the zoom, so that you can see the size of him. We are about 10 ft. away.- Urban Birder McAllen
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- megascops kennicottii western screech owl
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- Category: North America
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Two Screech Owls
Captured these two screech owls in the yard last night. Photos not as good as the previous ones. But if you look closely you can see the 2nd one in the lower left corner.- Urban Birder McAllen
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- megascops kennicottii western screech owl
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- Category: North America
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Western Screech Owl
Owls roost, the hole made by Gila Woodpeckers. This is in a Giant Saguaro Cactus. This Owl did not stay long a week os so then moved on. ta ta ole frog- olefrog
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- megascops kennicottii
- Comments: 12
- Category: North America
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Sleeping Western Screech Owl
Crow Valley Recreation Area and Campground. This bird used two different sleeping cavities in the two days we were there. They were only a few feet apart, however.- Avidbirdman
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- megascops kennicottii
- Comments: 5
- Category: North America
