Such a nice day, I had to go for a walk today. The closest thing we have to a forest in our nearby state park. While walking thru the trees, this guy flew out from behind me. The first photo shows where he first landed and my first shot. Unfortunately, a branch ruined this shot. He then flew to another tree just a few feet away. As you can see, he's already getting sleepy. The third shot shows him dozing off. I yelled and whistled, to try and get him to open his eyes. As you can see, he did manage to get one eye open, at the end of our session. It sure would have been nice to get a shot with both eyes wide and in plain view.

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Haha, a funny story :)

Yeah, why are they always sleeping? Last time I saw one, it had its eyes closed, too.

At least you managed to find one at all! I have never, ever seen a wild owl here in Scotland. :cryin:
Haha. :D

I like the last one a lot.

But I agree with Kathryn002, I'd be happy just to encounter one. With owls I've only gotten within visual distance on only two occassions.

Very cool screech owl, but they are easy picking in the open for any hark or great horned owl(which will hunt by day if it sees an screech owl under cloudy skies.