This spring I had a nice encounter with a Barred Owl sleeping in a Doug-fir along Kitson Ridge. Its eyes would get heavy and almost close, and then I’d make a rustle, or it would hear something on the forest floor, and the owl would intensely focus on the sound below. Willamette National Forest, Oregon West Cascades.
Barred Owl, Lane County, Oakridge Oregon, Owl, Willamette National Forest