Actually, this is the third time in 9 days … thus the word “reprise” may not be correct as I think it means repeat for a second time. Anyhow I drove north of Duluth yesterday morning. I felt the combination of heavy rains overnight combined with dry conditions and light winds after sunrise might make Great Grays hunt during the day. In addition, parent owls are feeding their juveniles less and less, and given the youngsters are lousy hunters, hunting after daybreak becomes more common.

When my friend and I found the owl it looked drenched, and for the first 45 minutes of our visit, the owl was just trying to dry off. Eventually it flew over to a tree only 10 yards from where I was standing. The key attribute of this tree was it was more open to the breeze. You could tell the Great Gray Owlet really just wanted to get dry.

Anyhow … from yesterday (video link for email subscribers)

Sleeping then Preening

I have NO IDEA at what the owl was looking!

Take-Off (landed right next to me … only 10 yards away!)