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Dorchester owl doesn't give a hoot
By adamg on Sat, 07/07/2018 - 11:46am
LauMalo83 watched an owl (yes, not a hawk) just sit there yesterday while a much smaller mockingbird kept ramming it, at Finnegan Park in Port Norfolk:
Huge Red hawk at #PortNorfolk #FinneganPark, birds are taunting “him” he doesn’t GAF @universalhub
@marialyonsdot pic.twitter.com/CbememksAL— It’s Dot, not “the dot” (@LauMalo83) July 6, 2018
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Comments
Adorable!
No, Not A Hawk
Not yes. No?
Well ...
The original tweet identifies it as a hawk (the author has since clarified she thought it was a hawk all fluffy from the rain), so that's why I wrote it like that - to emphasize its owlness even as you read the tweet IDing it as a hawk.
But grammar's hard sometimes, so what do I know?
It's a fledgling Great-horned Owl
That's why it's fluffy and sitting out in the open in the middle of the day. It's also lacking the ear tufts - "horns" - that give adults their name. It's old enough to fly a bit but at that age it's still dependent on its parents so the nest must have been nearby - in the park probably.
Looks like a barred owl to me
Looks like a barred owl to me, but tricky to say from the video.