We have a Great Gray owl (Strix nebulosa) hanging around. I haven’t yet been able to grab any stills or video of this bird, North America’s largest owl. It’s dark most of the time just now, and these birds are rather reclusive; I’ve seen it fly over a couple of times, and just gotten enough of a look to identify it.
I’m pretty good at identifying birds, too. My folks were big in the local Audubon Society when I was a kid, back in the days when the Audubons were still about birds and not climate scolding. We did nesting and migrating bird counts every year, living as we did right on the Mississippi Flyway, and between that and a lifelong interest in birds, I can identify probably 90 percent of North American birds by sight, and maybe 50 percent by sound alone.
That may be a brag, but as the famous Elmer Keith once said, “It ain’t bragging if you…
