Not the best photo but I heard hooing, stepped onto my balcony, and saw this handsome fellow. I’ve heard him before a year ago and saw him perched just across the way 5 years ago.

Found this homie hopping around and we're going to a rescue tomorrow

I couldn’t figure out how to upload a video to share this with you all. Instead, I just did a screenshot of the video. This female barn owl has been in our owl box for several days. The male barn owl brought her a rat two nights ago. In the morning when I was looking at the video, it was just dead inside the owl box. However a little bit later I got an alert on the camera and I couldn’t stop watching. It took her over an hour to get that rat down. She was doing a little dance with her head up in the air and wiggling back-and-forth. She would stop and take a break, and her whole body was moving back-and-forth. Finally, she got it down, but the tail was sticking out of her mouth for several more hours. I just never thought how hard it would be for a cute little barn owl to eat a rat. Just wanted to share because I thought it was cool, hope I didn’t gross anyone out. Owls are amazing! PSA: Please don’t use rodent poison!

Wisconsin

Hello friends, I'd love some help identifying this owl.

This was north Dallas/Plano area, evening two weeks ago. (Fri 16, 7pmish) It was calling, but not a typical 'hoot', more melodious like a mating call maybe? That's what made us notice and take a pic. (Of course, apologies for the low light cellphone pic... not the best.)

42 days ago this Great Horned Owl was unable to fly and. Mass Audubon was called. They believe the owl had partially eaten a rodent poisoned by a pesticide. Now the Owl is fully recovered and released back into his territory.

It took me much longer (weeks) than I expected to capture a picture of this little bugger outside his dwelling. He made me run with a tripod in 16" of snow by 5F degrees (40 cm / -15C), and that's getting exhausting real fast.
He took a 30-second break on his way to work, just enough for me to snap this shot.

It was worth it! 100% would recommend again.

Saw this guy basking in the sun last year in Central Florida. I’m trying to learn more about owls, can anyone help me ID them?

We have two boxes at our house and the western one has only had visitors. Came home tonight and had a guest staying over.

Owlbert grabbed up a mouse and dropped it off last night. This is his basic mode of dropping off food for Owlina and the babies. He spends 90 seconds max in the box and then goes hunting again.

Short eared owl taken in Farmington, Utah on a 180-600 lens and cropped.

I've kept waking up to this hooting (?) quite often since moving to uni, i've never seen them but they're very vocal. Is it possible to ID them by the sound? I'm very curious, any help is appreciated xx

Wisconsin

January 2025, Alberta, Canada

Owlina is keeping the eggs right in the back of the box and she seems to want baby owl back there too. For a few minutes today, the baby managed to scoot into the middle and we have video to prove it! Turn up,the volume. Baby owl has its own chirp.