Barred Owl

Thanks for your comments every one. Atul I watched the owl for most of the morning out my office window. It was pretty inactive, eyes closed, or spinning its head around now and then but not moving from its perch for several hours. Suddenly it took off heading straight for the window and next I saw it land with this poor squirrel. Fortunately I was holding my camera.

It is a these moments when the reality is thrust at you, I have trouble with how life is arranged. It is hard not to do something... to just let life take its course.

Many thanks!!

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/The-Spotted-Owls-New-Nemesis.html I guess spotted owls are being threatened by Barred owls... thanks for the link!

Thanks ... fixed it

Thanks eularubio, peter and lori! It was very tough to watch. Had to keep telling myself that the squirrel traded its life for the Barred Owl's chicks. Ironically it helped to have a camera between me and the "decisiveness" of this moment. Made it more abstract somehow.