Definitely a Barred Owl :). From the description of what happened, it probably saw its reflection in the window and thought it to be an intruder in its territory. It was probably bewildered when the intruder didn’t move, actually “fighting back” :). Birds are funny, yeah they are 🙂
We have two different leucistic red tail hawks in the Magic Valley and I thought people might be interested in seeing photos of these cool birds. Quite interesting that we have two of them…
The bird on pivot was seen between Filer & Buhl yesterday by Charlotte Eberlein and so I went out and took a photo.
I think the eyes are dark – barred have those really dark eyes vs the yellow of a great gray (looks like some light from the camera reflecting in the eyes). The frontal coloration favors barred, size favors barred when compared to the size of the fence, bill color favors barred and the population density in this area favors barred. IMHO 🙂
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It’s definitely a Barred Owl. Great Gray lacks the white
underparts and white barring on the upperparts and has dark facial
discs.
Cliff
On 2/3/21 10:15 AM, forsmann wrote:
I think Great Gray
On Wed, Feb 3, 2021 at 10:05
AM julie marcum <1mucram@…> wrote:
A
gentleman reported that this owl flew into his window twice
last night. He is listed as “Parkcenter” area. Comments ID
as barred vs great grey. I’m inclined to go with barred since
we have seen them at Shakespeare.
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Barred Owl … I have photographed them just off Parkcenter last year and there was one in the Christmas Bird count week in River Run I have one printed in metal on my wall that was taken in Barber Park. They have become a normal winter fixture in S.E. Boise. That said I have not seen one yet this year.
On Feb 3, 2021, at 10:05 AM, julie marcum <1mucram@…> wrote:
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A gentleman reported that this owl flew into his window twice last night. He is listed as “Parkcenter” area. Comments ID as barred vs great grey. I’m inclined to go with barred since we have seen them at Shakespeare.
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