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Another Owl
All summer long I’ve been watching these guys fly around the woods on our place, but only at dusk and always just fleeting glances. Once I even saw a pair that were weaving their way through tree trunks and branches late one evening in near total silence. But today was the first day I had a chance to capture a picture.
For the past several weeks I’ve noticed a collection of owl pellets at the base of one of the trees here. These are not poops but (apparently) regurgitations of stuff they can’t or won’t digest. Yesterday I was looking hard around the truck of this tree looking at these things when I looked up to see where in the tree the owl might have been when throwing this stuff up. I was more than a little shocked to see him right up there looking back at me. I didn’t have a camera with me at the time so when I was out there again today, camera in hand, I looked up and sure enough (s)he was right there in the same place.
I don’t know why but seeing it there just feels like Fall in the air.
Signs of Fall
A set of photos for today. Most of these were taken in the last week or two, but some from last Fall; most from here near the house, but some from the Great Smoky Mountains Nat. Park.
So much is left uncaptured and exist now only as a moments that are past. Here’s hoping all of you have Fall pictures in your mind’s eye that rival anything I’ve seen.
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