Burrowing Owls
Burrowing Owls!? Most of us are used to seeing owls...birds...in trees, but this species is a bit of an "odd duck" in that it prefers to live in the ground. I always get a chuckle out of folks who look up when I try to point these little fellows out to them!
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You know that feeling you get when your walking along in the 104 degree heat of a late afternoon sun in the Nevada desert? No, not that heat stroke feeling. But the feeling you are being watched? Well in this case it was the latter, I was being watched, by a Burrowing Owl. This owl had laid down on the hardened mud in the hopes I would walk on by but something gave the ground-dwelling bird away; that something was his eyes. Those huge round yellow eyes!
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