Peekaboo, who?
For the past few years we've been able to witness the same mom and dad great horned owls raise their young in a hollowed-out tree. Every year it's very exciting with as many as three owlets most years. A good friend of the family's alerted me that the owls are back. I decided to go to the 'owl tree' in north Corrales to see if I could get some nice pictures. I struck it rich as a photographer, not only getting nice pictures of dad and the mother owl in the nest, but close-ups of male woodpecker, a spotted towhee and several other birds I haven't identified yet. There are too many pictures to sort through today, a nice problem to have. The mother was very hard to see as she was deep in the nest; if you looked hard enough just the top of her head and an occasional eye could be seen. When the mother owl blinked I knew for sure that I was taking pictures of more than than just a tree. My friend thought it odd that the mother was still on the nest this late, so when ...