About an hour before supper last night while relaxing and resting after doing lots yard work to get ready for winter, I heard a crow! This crow sounded very upset, and given I have learned to speak the black bird’s language, I got my tired old duff off the couch and went hiking into the forest. 2/3’s of a mile down the trail I discovered one of my Great Horned Owls … I believe the mom both due to her larger size and well developed horns … eating crow! Thus … I bring you “talons”!
Great Horned Owl: I’m a sweet, innocent bird! 
Great Horned Owl: I do have some cool feet!
Talons!
That’s all folks!
On another note … Hawk Ridge banded quite a few northern saw-whet owls last night, Sunday the 25th. The weather forecast is for decent winds out of the north for the next few days. With lots of birds moving through northern Minnesota right now, yesterday my own feeders were also very active with migrants. Thus it is time to look for perched saw-whet during the day up north.
I remember when our son Alex learned about owls in elementary school. We asked him “Do you know what they call those things that the owls use to catch their food?” Alex replied proudly: “Tacos.”
Those photos were fabulous.