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, Owl, Westfir-Oakridge, Willamette National Forest