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Eastern Screech Owl

Megascops asio

Description:

All gray streaked all over, very good at camouflaging in with trees. Fortunately for me, he wasn't in a tree :)

Habitat:

In a drainage tube on a building at Laguna Atascosa NWR. The surrounding area is thorn scrub.

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4 Comments

Tom15
Tom15 10 years ago

Cute spotting! Looks like he's going to be shot out of a canon:-)

Very cool indeed:-)

AshleyT
AshleyT 10 years ago

Thanks Antonio, he was one of the highlights of my trip :) I love how you can see his eyes through his squinting!

Very cool :-)

AshleyT
Spotted by
AshleyT

Brownsville, Texas, USA

Spotted on Mar 12, 2014
Submitted on Mar 22, 2014

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