About to Land - Great Horned Owl

You can imagine how difficult it was to capture this moment on film. The bird is an owl, a great horned owl. All owls in North America have hidden ears accept the Great Horned Owl which has tufts on its head where the ears are. You can "feel" the air turbulance as this owl comes in to land next to you. This is such a perfect photo with the talons, the wing feathers, the eyes - all focused on landing.

Great Horned Owls, like other owls, are clueless about building nests. They use available structures to nest in, such as: stick nests of hawks, squirrel nests; small caves, ledges or crevices on cliffs, bridges, power lines, barns and old buildings, large flower pots on balconies, and a variety of nests created by humans from old tires, etc.