From Paul Bannick

Western Screech Owl (Megascops kennicotti) A Western Screech responds to the setting sun by beginning to move to the entrance of its new roost cavity. > As the first of the fall leaves hit the ground, North America's resident (non-migratory) owls, such as Pygmy-0wls, Northern Spotted, Barred, Barn, Great Horned and and Eastern Screech Owls are fully independent from their parents and attempt to move into their first home-ranges, which include everything they need to survive including roost cavities.

From Phil Hill

Perched Long Eared Owl nicely camouflaged.

From Southern Maryland Audobon Society

A pair of young Eastern Screech Owls looking quite dapper.

From Cape Wildlife Center

This barn owl chick has been in our care for several weeks now. He was found after he had fallen out of his nest in a barn in Falmouth.

This is a very exciting finding because barn owls are a species of special concern here in Massachusetts and only have established populations on Nantucket and Martha's vineyard. This is only the second nest site we're heard of on Cape Cod!

Our rescue team was called out to the scene to see if the chick could be renested with his family, but unfortunately we discovered that this little owl sustained a broken leg that had already started to heal very crooked.

This type of surgical repair has a more guarded prognosis than a fresh fracture because in order to align the bones you must break down lots of fibrous tissue that has formed and this could potentially cause further damage to the leg. However, given the special nature of this case our veterinary team decided to perform the surgery.

Since then it's been a slow progress, with him having almost no feeling in the leg past the fracture site, to him slowly trying to stand on it. He's still got a long road to recovery but we'll be here to support him every step of the way!

From Harvey Grenville

A 2024 tawny owlet has a bath in a woodland pool as a sibling watches. Supported by a small owl conservation project on Exmoor, UK.

This is the Dave story as yesterday's Hook, Line, and Sinker, but from the rescue center instead of the local news, so it's the same owl, but different pics and info.

From Illinois Raptor Center

We have seen some crazy things in the years of helping wild creatures of Illinois. An occasional bird comes in tangled in fishing line. Most the time it's a young songbird that has been caught while in the nest due to the parents bringing fishing line back to the nest. The other common case is a raptor flying into dangling line from trees around lakes or ponds. Usually it's not too difficult to unwrap the birds - but recently we received the most tangled mess of an owl we have ever seen ! This Great -horned Owl was flying along - minding her own business when she somehow ran into one of those massive gob of snagged lures and line hanging from a power line. This bird had almost 300 grams of lead, line, hooks and lures hanging from it. One hook was embedded in the wing ( it's a miracle there wasn't any more ).

Springfield police officers actually waded out into the water to retrieve her as she got caught on a limb over water. A call to the Macon County sheriff was made and they came out to the irc to inform us that the owl was coming in.

We were all a bit shocked when we saw the amount of stuff on the bird. Some calculated snips here and there, along with very careful examination of the entire bird and one qiant hook removal from the fleshy part of the 4 downloads complete an enclosure before she moved to the superflight complex for final flight work.

From WAND tv

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WAND) - The Springfield Police Department rescued an owl wrapped in fishing line.

Officers brought the owl to the Illinois Raptor Center where experts started untangling the fishing line. They found several hooks and fishing lures caught in the bird's skin and feathers.

"What we got was a big, beautiful Great Horned Owl who was completely engulfed in fishing line and fishing lures. I have been doing this for 30 years. A bird coming in wrapped up in fishing line is not a surprising thing. I have never seen anything this bad," said Jacques Nuzzo, Program Director for the Illinois Raptor Center.

The Illinois Raptor Center said they hope to release the owl in a few days.

From Dan Kev

Same owl, many looks. Which is your favorite?

No source was provided for this one, but it was too fun to not share!

Photo by Billy Davidson

Went looking for landscapes and found this beautiful lady!

Every opportunity we are given to set with a barred owl is extremely powerful! This lady was on a beautiful perch eye level in excellent light. -in Clinton County, Missouri.

From Bigdan Boen

Eurasian Scops Owl - Bulgaria

From Ronald Milne

Most of the pics I get of these big fellas are in captivity, so it was a nice find for me to see this.

From Victor Carerra:

From what I can tell, these were taken at The Raptors at Vancouver Island. Looks like a place where you can have all levels of raptor encounters.

Photos by Gary Jones

Barn Owls

Thankfully the evening storms and rain around El Barraco stayed away this evening to spend some time photographing the Owls in Jose's fantastic barn set up.

The group get to do this each evening, and after a long day photographing the Eagles in the mountains it was a real nice change.

From Middle TN Raptor Center

Back on July 6th, we took in a young female Barn Owl with what we called the most gruesome injury we'd seen to date: the end of her wing was accidentally severed by a chain saw. The before pictures show a clean cut across the end of her wing and the wound on her side. We did not expect her to survive the ordeal but treated her anyway. We have been reluctant to post about her because many times we considered her future quality of life and thought she would have to be euthanized due to the wing damage. We didn't even name her because we didn't think she would be with us long enough.

Today, we are happy to show you her recovery progress. Look at how well that wing has recovered in the after photos! She still has challenges to overcome, but we are hopeful for her continued recovery. We're so excited to announce that once the weather lightens up, she will finally get to move outside to start building flight strength, do live prey tests, and hopefully push toward one of the most unlikely freedom day releases we've ever had.

From Owl Moon Raptor Center

In a heartwarming rehabilitation story, six eastern screech owls-Diego, Joey, Howie, Emmy, Gwen, and Dora-were released together after successful recoveries. Each owl came to Owl Moon at different times late last fall and early winter suffering from head and eye trauma. They found camaraderie during their healing process residing together in the same mew. The screechies overcame feather damage through a full molt and formed strong bonds with one another. Prior to release, the staff carefully conducted live prey tests to ensure they were ready for life in the wild.

When the time came and all were healthy, their mew door was left open overnight to let the six loose. Since the screech owls are all young, they could be released in a new territory since this is the age they typically venture out to find their own homes away from home nests. Since they became bonded to one another, it is possible that some will journey together, pair up, and raise families in the near future. Since their release, nights at the Center are full of screech owl calls and responses, a sign that members of the group are not only thriving but also establishing their presence in the area. We hope our new neighbors hang around and have a full life back in nature together!

Photo by Supratim Kar

Spotted Owlet with hypnotic gaze.

From Isaac Polanski

I never thought l'd get a chance at a Burrowing Owl in Michigan. It's been 40 years since the last record, with only 3 other records in the state. Once the word was out that one was at Whitefish Point, I knew I had to go. While it was hunkered down throughout the day, at sunset it became active like most owls do. These were my closest looks at a Burrowing Owl anywhere!

From Freedom First Wildlife Rehab

Edward, the Barred Owl was just fine after his procedure this morning! Come on Edward, finish your molt!

Edward is at Freedom First recovering from an impact injury. No broken bones, but a dislocated shoulder. Between the injury and some feather issues, he can fly, but not well.

This post will go over his feather issue. He molted new feathers, but the protective coating was not coming off, leaving large parts of feather unfloofed.

He just needed to be held still while they used their fingers to break up all the feather sheath that was remaining. They can't use scissors or any tools, as they would damage the feathers.

Photo by Jeremy Jonkman

I captured this Image of a barred owl inflight 16 frames after my latest take off post. The owl was flying right at me and landed on a stump less than 10 feet from me trying to catch a squirrel which it missed by inches. This is only about a 15% crop as it eventually overfilled the frame. Taken in king County, hope you all enjoy!

Photo by Abhay Kewat

Collared Owlet in India

This is Asia's smallest owl at around 6.25 in /16 cm.

I've seen comments that it calls in all directions, making it a difficult owl to locate by sounds. Here is a video of it hooting all around. It's a pretty cute sound.

From Wild Heart Ranch

Meet stinky! By the way, I've been sprayed in the eyes by a skunk. Yes it feels like he looks. Poor guy. -Annette

I thought of skunk spray as extremely smelly of course, but now I've learned it is a pretty harsh eye irritant as well.

This poor owl, though unable to smell a skunk, still lost out by taking a direct hit to the eyeballs, leaving it unable to fly. Thankfully it was found and brought in for treatment.

The Great Horned Owl is one of the few predators of skunks, due to them having no sense of smell.

Another thing I learned is that skunk spray can, in rare cases, be deadly to dogs. Toxic Skunk Syndrome can occur when a dog ingests skunk spray by being shot in the mouth. The chemicals damage red blood cells and cause a deadly form of anemia.

Screencaps from video by Leo Buckley

Beautiful Barred owl in the early morning just looking for some breakfast. Couldn't of asked for a better back drop with some of the leaves changing colors already

From Steve Kirby

I do believe there are angels among us. For some God puts wings on them, for others he lets their light shine through their spirit and soul.

Saw Whet Owl

Disclaimer: I thought the sentiment of the quote was nice, even though I am not a religious person myself. I hope that isn't an issue to anyone. I know some don't like it, but you can still enjoy the photo itself.