I photographed this baby Great Horned Owl in Pennsylvania, USA.
This was my first time seeing a baby owl climate tree.
Baby great horned owls are huge compared to a baby barred owl.
Again, if you see an owl on the ground, please give it space so it can hop, skip, and jump to the nearest tree to climb it!
This cutie was well monitored for two days by everybody in the community and on the second day, he climbed seven trees and once he finally found a sturdy one he stayed in it for 18 hours.
I have photos of this darling roosting in people’s daffodils.
People in Pennsylvania are extra extraordinary, literally everyone was pro-owl, meaning it wasn’t about the shot everyone wanted, to make sure the owl was OK. People opened up their homes to me, and their hearts. It was a life-altering experience, owl and human-wise.
I had no idea they do that! So cute!!
Between their shape and the total lack of hands, it does seem to defy physics.
This looks like a decent video (I can’t listen to the audio right now) and you can see how the try flapping to give a little lift and to press into the tree a bit. It’s a bit like vertical crawling, not exactly climbing nor flying.
The one in this post looks like it’s got most of its flight feathers, but they’ll start doing this before they have enough adult feathers to actually fly. Doing this helps build up all their muscles for when the big day comes.
Aww it’s sort of like how we scramble up some rocks. Very endearing how it would take a short break after every few steps.
As always, thank you for the owl lesson! 🤗
I’m glad you got a kick out of it! 😇