Owl Be Seeing You....

 
Saturday, July 11 - Hamilton, MA

We had just finished eating dinner. I was at the sink, loading the dishes into the dishwasher. Kathy and Aaron were at the table drawing and coloring pictures. Suddenly, Kathy says to me "Come over here and see this! There is an owl in the yard! Quick, get the camera!" I walk over to the back door and look out just in time to see the owl fly from the grass into the birch tree in our front yard. He is huge!

Just then, we spot another one, a young one, sitting in another tree next to the birch tree. Before I could get a picture of it, another one flew onto the birch tree with the big one already sitting there. Imagine, a family of three owls right here in our yard! I took as many pictures as I could, but I could not get one shot of all of them together.

I followed them across the street to a neighbor's yard, where a fourth owl showed up, but I still could not get a shot of more than one at a time. They kept moving to different trees, or onto the grass in the front yard. Finally, they seemed to fly off.

I went out with the dogs, and as I was walking down the road, I spotted another one in the trees across the road. When I got back to the house, Kathy and Aaron were out in the side yard. There was another owl in a tree out back. I put the dogs on the porch and got the camera. We were only able to get one picture of this owl, as he flew and landed in our yard, right next to some of Aaron's toy dinosaurs. Maybe the owl thought they were small animals.

We are not sure if these were a family of four owls, or just four random owls, out hunting for dinner.

Here is the web album with the pictures I took:

http://picasaweb.google.com/cbenoitiii/OwlSightingInHamilton?authkey=Gv1sRgCPjOh5uQneuDfA&feat=directlink