Photo of a baby owl taken by my son at family cabin near La Veta, COThe description of sighting this owlet is under Comment 1, because it was my first post and I hadn't quite figured out how it worked at that point.
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Quite possibly the cutest baby bird on the planet, this owlet was discovered by my son one sunny afternoon outside our family's cabin.
ReplyDeleteFollowing close on the heels of another wonderful wildlife encounter - the chance to observe a yearling deer grazing for more than an hour in one spot - it made for a spectacular day of communing with nature.
When my son first claimed to see a small owl, I couldn't see it, as it resembled a small gray rock perched on the edge of a large boulder. Then I realized the little rock had short stubby legs.
While I went in search of a camera, the little rock relocated itself to a tree spanning the creek.
There it proceeded to silently communicate that it was an adorable fuzzy owlet completely bewildered about why it was where it was when it was (3:30 pm), but nonetheless, there it was - on the middle of a tree trunk above a rapidly coursing creek.
We had no idea where its parents were, but assumed they were unaware that it had fallen or flown out of the family home while they were asleep, like most creatures of the owl persuasion.
Though obviously befuddled, this baby was also very trusting, apparently being too young to perceive humans as a threat. We, of course, did not touch it, not wanting to worry its parents should they happen to be observing our interaction with their precious little one.
The little miscreant next flew to the kitchen roof and flew/scuttled along to the peak, where he huddled for quite a while pondering the universe. He then skittered back down along a beam, so that he was more protected - a good move, I thought, as I was worried about raptors spotting him perched in broad daylight at the roof's peak.
We eventually went back inside the cabin, hoping his parents would wake up and spot him. When next we checked, he was nowhere in sight, so we hope he either got home on his own or his folks located him and returned him to the nest.