Eastern Screech Owl

Changde Wu    2017-03-05

Eastern Screech-Owls live in wide area east of Rocky mountains. Its size is comparable to doves. Their calls in the night are in high pitch. They are great at camouflage, generally choose to make a nest in the tree hole. Eastern Screech-Owls have gray and red two morphs. They are largely nocturnal, means either hide in the hole or sleep during day time. The majority of the screech-owl photos with red morph here were taken from a nest site on the street aide in the residential area of a coastal town; while the one with gray morph was from a cemetery. The following photos were taken at different times.

P1 Sleeping in the hole before noon.

P2 Half sleeping in the afternoo

P3 With eyes shut most of the times

P4 Also squinting sometimes

P5 Peaceful with neighboring squirrel

P6 Opening the eyes wide after the sunset

P7 With eyes wide open when it is dark

P8 Eyes not opening wide enough since it is not totally dark

P9 Flew off the hole, stop over a tree for the next destination in a dark night

P10 The owl with gray morth in the hollow during dusk

P11 Eyes wide open in evening hour and ready to hunt

P12 The moment before took off

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