Cyndi was out for a walk.  I heard her open the door and tell me "get 
your camera and get out here."

After some time of temporary blindness on my part, she was able to 
point me to a barred owl which promptly flew off as soon as I spotted 
it.  Then, we respotted it, on a tree hanging over one of the nearby 
roads.  There was a fork in the road, so i went up the hill on the 
other road so as not to get too close to the bird to flush it and 
took some shots of it.  These were in poor light from a bit of a 
distance, but they're the first photos I ever got of a barred owl 
that didn't involve a bird in captivity, so that makes me happy. 
According to Cyndi, she first spotted it sitting on a dead branch 
directly over our feeders.

Thumbnails of the owl pictures at:

http://juliesmagiclightshow.com/?keywords=&dte=2008-01-13

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