 Great Horned Owl...?
Monday night, on Brody's and Mia's last potty break outside...and I watch up in the branches because we have huge oak tree branches covering the yard...I heard leaves rustling. Expecting squirrels, I looked up and saw fluttering, then heard a big owl. The call sounded like a Great Horned Owl, and he was just over our heads in the tree branches. He spoke twice and flew away but when I saw the fluttering, I knew it wasn't squirrels and started grabbing Yorkies...heart pounding...running for the house.
"The Great Horned Owl is native throughout Florida and is the largest of Florida's Owls, with a body length up to 25 inches and a wing span to five feet.
Great Horned Owls prey on a wide variety of animals from fish and snakes to small mammals and birds, a powerful predator, they are capable of taking animals two or three times their own body weight.
The Great Horned Owl is the only large owl in Florida that has "ear tufts"." |