Originally Posted by
CactusCurt
Here on the winter range we have screech owls and great horned. I think this is a boreal?
I believe you are right. Here is one of my oft used sites for IDs.
I did not mean to suggest we only had great horned owls here, in fact we have a wide range of owls but most often I see signs of their presence or hear them at night. As a kid we had a family of barn owls living in one of our silos---they perched on the top ring right above the ladder---it made going up to throw silage down hazardous duty
Commonly I find pellets around the base of a nesting tree---look close and you will find out what they are living on
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