A Trifecta of Owls

Top-parent owl, middle below parent is crow, but just below crow on left is the  owl chick, The second partent is in the lower right hand corner.

 

 

Grackle showing his feather display to a potential mate in the next tree.

This mocking bird stopped singing and was watching the grackle's loud calls.

The crows told the story that they were unhappy in a grove of trees. That same grove has been the nesting site of Bard Owls and Red Shouldered Hawks in past seasons. The story board has changed this year with a family of Great Horned Owls taking over the grove.

A  couple of weeks or three, ago, I had seen, along with several others, the male, the female and the fluffy chick. Today was a trifecta of tickets with a parent on a top branch, the growing chick  in the middle and a parent on the bottom branch. It was a delight to see all three with another person that lives a few blocks away.

I'm glad he got to see all three together.