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The post below discusses night sounds and mentions the whinny of a screech owl. Well, yesterday my friends Tom and Chris called to say they had a Eastern Screech Owl sitting in their hemlock tree in their yard and wondered if I wanted a picture.

The hemlock wasn't too big, maybe about 20 feet tall and the owl was about 2/3 of the way up just resting for the day. I was able to get about 15 feet from the base of the tree and get a pretty good shot without disturbing Mr. (or Mrs.) owl.

Screech owls are the smallest common owl that we have around here. There are two color phases, grey (seen here) and red. It is the same species, the only difference is the color.