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I scrolled the creator's feed, and while they have some recent owl shots, none are what this one is, a Great Horned Owl. I'm thinking this was an older photo of his that he made the infographic with. This is the time of year they nest though, so I will have a bunch of owl baby photos soon. There are usually nest cams you can find online as well, so you can see owlets hatch and what crazy things dad brings them home to eat. Snakes and fish are particularly exciting to me.
I post a few posts a day about owl facts and owls from all over the world every day. I will also be returning to my own work with wildlife in March, so I get stories from there and other rehab hospitals as well. I'm in the eastern US, the photographer from the image is in Wisconsin, and while a lot of what I share is from the US since I know how to find that stuff the easiest, I try to find things from all over. There are around 250 species of owl, so I have a lot to choose from.
I try to get everyone's questions answered, so if you comment, I will almost always see it, and I'll do my best to answer any questions you have, it doesn't have to be related to the post, just ask and I'll either reply to you if it's something small, or if it's more complicated, I can do a new post on it.
ok, tks for the answer! about the cams, i usually have bird watching hq youtube channel on the background while on the computer
Very nice! I see I've watched a few of their videos.
I gave updates the one spring on a Great Horned family that took over an eagle's nest and they had two owlets. There were a few dramatic eagle raids where momma owl got knocked clean out of the nest, but she was ok and both babies made it to adulthood. Sadly, it looked like one got some poisoned food shortly after it left on its own, but I believe the other made it until it was fully independent.