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Monday, February 15, 2016

Iowa Birds 6: Eastern Screech-Owls

I was surprised to discover that the last bird post I did was April of last year. How the time doth fly. I certainly haven’t forgotten about it though, and have art in progress.

The little Eastern Screech owls(less than a foot tall) have a very interesting call—which is not actually a screech. Sound clips can be heard on allaboutbirds.org.

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They can be either of the two colors pictured above…

“Gray morph”…

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or “Rufous morph”.

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If you here a mysterious sound in the night, it might just be one of these cuties!

Thursday, February 4, 2016

Sweet Pete, Big Mitt, and Bo-Bo

Peter, Jasper, and Bo hanging out in/on random stuff. :)

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