Eastern Screech-owl

Eastern Screech-owl
(South Bristol, NY 5/12)

It is funny how "Camera Trap Karma" works. I have only ever captured one image of an owl before after years of camera trapping. That was back in May of this year and I promptly forgot about it (I didn't even blog about it!). That photo was taken as part of class I teach each summer and my technician was a former student, avid camera trapper and blogger. For whatever reason (I haven't asked) she thought of that image and decided to blog about it yesterday. See that post here.

I checked my cameras last night and lo and behold obtained my second capture of an owl, this one also an Eastern Screech-owl.

Notice that in this recent image, the screech-owl is on the ground. That is the edge of our backyard pond. I wonder if the large number of frogs drew him in. Or was it the insects?

Eastern Screech-owl
(Seneca Falls, NY 9/12)

I had the Attack set to take a 30-second video. Nothing super special.... the owl scratches and moves a little closer to the water. But it gets the imagination going. I watched a Barred Owl catch a frog in south Florida about 12 years ago and I sure would have liked to have a video of this guy doing the same....