Texas owlets...

Great Horned Owl owlets

(Bubo virginianus)

My old friends Jim and Robin Hadcock sent me this picture of Great Horned Owl owlets nesting in a palm tree, in Texas earlier this year.   The photo was taken near Mission Grande, in the Rio Grande Valley, just across the river from Mexico.  The Great Horned Owl is an early breeder and starts hooting in in the middle of winter, and often lays its eggs in January.   It is found throughout North America, except in Arctic tundra, and in South America from Peru to Patagonia.

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Barry Wallace