I am part of a raptor rehabilitation network, we go on calls all the time to get injured hawks, owls, osprey and the occasional duck that someone thinks is a hawk 
Anyway, one of our neighbors called and said he had a roosting Great Horned Owl in his backyard, so we went to take a look, and sure enough we found the momma and three owlets.
I used my spotting scope to see them and photograph them so the photos are not the best, but they are certainly quite cool.
I can’t tell scale – is that the mama?
The third pic is definitely the best. What a great opportunity!
Awwwww!
Oh no, that is all the same owlet - I zoomed in with the spotting scope, it was around 6:30pm last night. Mom left when we got there, she roosted about a 100 yards away.
Scale wise, the nest is roughly 3 feet across and 2 feet deep. I’m standing about 100 yards away.
The third pic is the best. You can see his little eyes. Momma is barly visible with the spotting scop because she blends perfectly with the mulberry tree she went and perched on.
Too cool!
That’s pretty cool. My daughter and I talk with a couple of hoot owls about once a month when we hear them during our evening walk in a field about seventy yards from our house. I try and mimic their call as closely as possible. My daughter just softly calls out “hoot hooh hoot.”
Cool!
We have had a duck that has been sitting in our front yard for the past few days taunting my dog. She just sits there and no matter how much he barks out the window at it and jumps around she doesn’t move.
This morning I saw her behind one of the little bushes just under that window - you can see her here - then my husband opened the garage door and she moved away - and I found out why she won’t move.
Looks like they’ll all have to learn to get along. The dog and the ducks, I mean. 
Time for the annual Kodak Building peregrine live cam shots. FalconCam
Mariah has laid 5 eggs this year!
StG
Is it a Barred Owl? Their calls sounds like " WHO COOKS FOR YOUUU…WHO COOKS FOR YOUUU"
Or great horned Deep Bellowing four or five hoots in a row.
Screech owls sound like frogs and so do saw whet owls.
I’ll try and get some more pics tonight. 
Man, somedays I think you just live to make me jealous of where you live.
Why don’t you go out for a ride in your boat or something, fella?
The Poynette Game Farm has a zoo you can visit where the DNR keep species that you don’t normally see, that have been injured. They have a few different Owls species with the owlets. They owlet’s were little balls of fluff much like chicken chicks, but they have a complicated pattern on them. I hope to get some pictures if they have them again. My camera was broken last time.
I’ve no idea as I’ve never actually seen them, but we have been chatting them up for a couple of years now. It’s kind of a “HootHootHooooo HootHooooo HootHooooo…” We’re at the southern perimeter of The Big Thicket. The notion you can talk to birds is positively spellbinding for a 7 year old.
Lucky, lucky, lucky, lucky, lucky!
Remind me sometime to tell you my “waking up in an abandoned barn surrounded by a MILLION owls” story.
Strange & beautiful.
You had the opportunity to move out there as I seem to remember But you are always welcome if you find yourself in CT to stop by
Lieu - I think you are hearing a Barred Owl very common. Check out the page and if it’s not any of those try a Great Horned Owl, or Great Grey Owl. Listen to both.
My guess is you’ve got a Barred Owl, very common, and they have that HootHooootHoot type call.
AWESOME! I think baby owls are the cutest of all baby birds.
No, man - you misremember. I applied, but my 20+ years of experience were deemed insufficient to permit me to even test and interview for a job writing the decisions that I have defended these past 2 decades! Just got the final denial of my appeal today. Yay for me! 
I’ll be on the golf course.
A local television station, KJRH, has set up a “Hawk Cam” on the building’s roof to monitor the progress of a family of red-tailed hawks nesting up there. The little hawklets are really cute, but I bet if I reached for one of 'em, he’d bite my finger off.
Investigated your link, tres cool, and it’s almost certainly a Great Horned Owl. The Pasa Robles streamer is near identical and the cadence in particular is spot on.
Oh ok I guess I misremembered I’ll be hanging out here every other weekend starting memorial day. - it’s 3 miles from my home.
