It’s interesting to note what’s showing up around here, now that I no longer have a dog.
Owls are awesome, aren’t they-the Great Horned are the ones heard mostly, but there is one that screeches, too-someone told me it is a kind of barn owl. I’ve never seen one of those, but I’ve seen the horned ones a few times at dusk taking off into the woods to find something small and helpless for dinner...
There is a pair of them that nest in the trees on the cliff-they’ve used the chimney cap as a courting perch every breeding season for years-the hooting echoes down the chimney into the living room...