Great Horned Owls

A friend of ours has a family of owls living on her property.  She let us know this morning that there was a good viewing opportunity and we hurried over.

Sadly, all I had was my phone, and trying to take decent pictures of a bird in a tree with a phone camera is not easy.  I may get some better photos from our friend, but for now here are blurry, mediocre shots of all three owls we saw today.

 Baby owl number 1.

 Baby owl number 2.

Watchful father owl.

All three seemed to be in sort of torpor, it being mid day.  But what fun to see these large predatory birds just sitting in the trees.