Eastern Screech Owl

Megascops asio

Description:

A small owl that is streaked gray all over. He has himself stuffed in a roof drainage pipe on the visitors center building :)

Habitat:

Found in woodlands across eastern North America.

Notes:

At Laguna Atascosa NWR

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14 Comments

AshleyT 11 years ago

Thanks Magiccat42!

Magiccat42 11 years ago

Love the picture

AshleyT 11 years ago

Thanks Carol :)

Carol Snow Milne 11 years ago

This is so funny! HA! Great spot!

Telse 11 years ago

Exactly! lol!

AshleyT 11 years ago

Thanks Karen and Telse! I'm not sure how he gets in there Telse, he looks stuffed in that position, but it's not like he can back up into the pipe like that. So he had to turn around somewhere. I don't get it lol

Telse 11 years ago

What the heck is he doing in there? Well, it looks comfy enough. Cute.

KarenL 11 years ago

Very sweet!

AshleyT 11 years ago

I wondered what he does when it rains too, Leanne! They are having a bad drought down there though, which I guess is good for this cute little guy, but not so much for everything else!

LeanneGardner 11 years ago

That is so cute! I hope it doesn't rain and disturb him :)

AshleyT 11 years ago

Thanks J, Victoria, and Christy! And Christy, we just saw someone taking pictures of the building and were wondering why he was doing that, but then we looked over and we were like Oh! Owl! Was pretty cool :)