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'Barred Owl Facial Disc' Photograph by Ryan Van Meter

Barred Owl Facial Disc

Raising my camera in the direction of a calling woodpecker, I was surprised to see this male Barred only fifteen feet above. He likely watched my approach for hundreds of feet along an old logging road behind a marsh, as I focused on the brush below for spring Warblers without spotting him. He stayed for a few minutes, surveying the marsh for prey, but flushed as a reverberating military helicopter passed overhead.

11 May 2022

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Pawlet, Vermont, USA

Barred Owl

Strix varia
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