My Great Horned Owlets will arrive in this world any day now. In fact, one of the chicks may have already hatched. Once per day I hike over to the nesting area and check on my owl family. At night, the male serenades our home with his song.
I took this photograph yesterday morning while Mom was sitting in a different position than normal. Upon maximizing the image you will notice what I believe is the Great Horned Owl’s tale which leads me to speculate she might be covering up her young. As noted, I have never seen her sitting in this manner. Our air temperatures are still only reaching the mid 30’s Fahrenheit during the afternoon. A newly hatched owlet would not get much time out from under its mom.
My morning actually started with a trip to the harbor. However, do not hold in your mind a picture of an industrial area. While there definitely are wharves, bridges and ships in the Duluth harbor, the St. Louis river estuary has lots of wilderness. I found this Bald Eagle in the exact same tree where I photographed the immature Bald Eagle two mornings ago.
In fact, here is that photo I took a couple of days back. It is likely this eagle is 3 to 4 years old and will soon finally get its classic white head and tail.
Finally, my apologies to any of you who experienced difficulties using my web site yesterday. I experienced difficulties which are now solved. My thanks to Bruce and Arlene, two of my readers who contacted me during the outage. Their emails alerted me to the problem and I was able to bring the site back up quickly.
