Burrowing owl taking in the morning sun 🦉 ☀️ #birds #raptors - ThreadSky

photosteve.bsky.social • 22 days ago

Burrowing owl taking in the morning sun 🦉 ☀️ #birds #raptors

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bridgetmc.bsky.social•22 days ago

They are so charming.

photosteve.bsky.social•22 days ago

They are so tiny and round, perfect little owl orbs

virgotex.bsky.social•18 days ago

Birding highlight of 2024 was seeing one of these guys right at year's end

photosteve.bsky.social•17 days ago

They are so great! We have a small year-round population in the Bay Area they are trying to maintain, but a lot more show up in the winter especially in the east bay (this was in Berkeley, CA).

virgotex.bsky.social•17 days ago

There were two other people at this little one's location when I was there and we just stood there smitten with this imperious little being blinking at us. I took way too many pictures because my brain was going sort of on/off and I knew half of them would be crap (they were).

photosteve.bsky.social•17 days ago

So great, I similarly had lots of people walking by saying “oh is that an owl?!”

virgotex.bsky.social•17 days ago

"Nope, just a gopher..."

photosteve.bsky.social•17 days ago

😂

photosteve.bsky.social•22 days ago

I can’t decide if it’s cuter with its eyes closed or barely open #birds #raptors