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From Paul Bannick

Western Screech Owl (Megascops kennicotti) A Western Screech responds to the setting sun by beginning to move to the entrance of its new roost cavity. > As the first of the fall leaves hit the ground, North America's resident (non-migratory) owls, such as Pygmy-0wls, Northern Spotted, Barred, Barn, Great Horned and and Eastern Screech Owls are fully independent from their parents and attempt to move into their first home-ranges, which include everything they need to survive including roost cavities.

From Phil Hill

Perched Long Eared Owl nicely camouflaged.

I was thinking today about how I've been very pleased with my most recent set of work boots today and thought it could be interesting if anyone else had any particular favorite clothing items that they have really been enjoying.

Clothes are a very personal choice, as we're all built differently and do different things, but I'm curious to see if any trends show up in what we like.

I got the Keen Braddock Low Tops almost a year ago. I had a previous pair of Keen's imported boots a while back, and my new job makes us go through their provider instead of me getting reimbursed for buying my own boot of choice, and I wasn't thrilled with the idea of buying safety toes without getting to try them on first, as some can be pretty uncomfortable. I saw they had the US made Braddock though, which I had been wanting to try to see if it was an upgrade from the now discontinued boots I had from them.

I like Keen's because my old ones held up tremendously well. The thick rubber toe may look a little odd, but it doesn't scuff up like a leather cap boot, and it's asymmetrical so it fits my big foot better than many safety toes where both caps are the same shape. They feel very sneaker like, which is nice since my feet don't need serious protection from a super stiff and tall boot. I like the design is enough to be interesting, but nothing too wild.

These have been holding up very well, though I have 3 pairs in my rotation now, I also have a pair of leather CAT steel toe low tops and a pair of Carhartt composite toe fabric low tops. They each have their ups and downs, but the Keen is my all-arounder. It's not as light as the comp toe, it's a little bulkier than the leather boot, but it's the most comfy and feels to be the best built of the 3.

Edit: Just noticed the rules say the post needs to end with a question mark...

What is your favorite clothing item and why?

From Cape Wildlife Center

This barn owl chick has been in our care for several weeks now. He was found after he had fallen out of his nest in a barn in Falmouth.

This is a very exciting finding because barn owls are a species of special concern here in Massachusetts and only have established populations on Nantucket and Martha's vineyard. This is only the second nest site we're heard of on Cape Cod!

Our rescue team was called out to the scene to see if the chick could be renested with his family, but unfortunately we discovered that this little owl sustained a broken leg that had already started to heal very crooked.

This type of surgical repair has a more guarded prognosis than a fresh fracture because in order to align the bones you must break down lots of fibrous tissue that has formed and this could potentially cause further damage to the leg. However, given the special nature of this case our veterinary team decided to perform the surgery.

Since then it's been a slow progress, with him having almost no feeling in the leg past the fracture site, to him slowly trying to stand on it. He's still got a long road to recovery but we'll be here to support him every step of the way!

From Harvey Grenville

A 2024 tawny owlet has a bath in a woodland pool as a sibling watches. Supported by a small owl conservation project on Exmoor, UK.

This is the Dave story as yesterday's Hook, Line, and Sinker, but from the rescue center instead of the local news, so it's the same owl, but different pics and info.

From Illinois Raptor Center

We have seen some crazy things in the years of helping wild creatures of Illinois. An occasional bird comes in tangled in fishing line. Most the time it's a young songbird that has been caught while in the nest due to the parents bringing fishing line back to the nest. The other common case is a raptor flying into dangling line from trees around lakes or ponds. Usually it's not too difficult to unwrap the birds - but recently we received the most tangled mess of an owl we have ever seen ! This Great -horned Owl was flying along - minding her own business when she somehow ran into one of those massive gob of snagged lures and line hanging from a power line. This bird had almost 300 grams of lead, line, hooks and lures hanging from it. One hook was embedded in the wing ( it's a miracle there wasn't any more ).

Springfield police officers actually waded out into the water to retrieve her as she got caught on a limb over water. A call to the Macon County sheriff was made and they came out to the irc to inform us that the owl was coming in.

We were all a bit shocked when we saw the amount of stuff on the bird. Some calculated snips here and there, along with very careful examination of the entire bird and one qiant hook removal from the fleshy part of the 4 downloads complete an enclosure before she moved to the superflight complex for final flight work.

From Southern Maryland Audobon Society

A pair of young Eastern Screech Owls looking quite dapper.

From WAND tv

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WAND) - The Springfield Police Department rescued an owl wrapped in fishing line.

Officers brought the owl to the Illinois Raptor Center where experts started untangling the fishing line. They found several hooks and fishing lures caught in the bird's skin and feathers.

"What we got was a big, beautiful Great Horned Owl who was completely engulfed in fishing line and fishing lures. I have been doing this for 30 years. A bird coming in wrapped up in fishing line is not a surprising thing. I have never seen anything this bad," said Jacques Nuzzo, Program Director for the Illinois Raptor Center.

The Illinois Raptor Center said they hope to release the owl in a few days.

From Dan Kev

Same owl, many looks. Which is your favorite?

Photo by Billy Davidson

Went looking for landscapes and found this beautiful lady!

Every opportunity we are given to set with a barred owl is extremely powerful! This lady was on a beautiful perch eye level in excellent light. -in Clinton County, Missouri.

No source was provided for this one, but it was too fun to not share!

From Victor Carerra:

From what I can tell, these were taken at The Raptors at Vancouver Island. Looks like a place where you can have all levels of raptor encounters.