Let's see

[Dinkshooter]

How good our resident bird brain biologist are.

ps. I've not a clue as to what kind it is but I do have a picture of the adult for later

 

[Missoulaz28]

It's an Owl. What do I win?

 

[Dinkshooter]

Dam wind was bad.

 

[Dinkshooter]

It's an Owl. What do I win?

Hardee, Har, Har.

 

[noharleyyet]

That is about the size of the three that were staring at me from an eyelevel threshold when I opened a tower blind door once....seven steps up and one step down.

 

[Ben Lamb]

Juvenile Great Horned Owl?

 

[Grizzley]

That there Mr. Dinkshooter is the Dual Yellow-Eyed Hornswagler! Otherwise know in the great state of Montana as a Robin!

 

[cornfed]

Some pretty good meat hooks on that youngster.

 

['Ike']

Juvenile Great Horned Owl?

That's what I'm thinking also...

 

[----]

My first thought was Great Horned also.

 

[Oak]

Great horned owl. Nice...

 

[Dinkshooter]

I guess I have to get up before 10:30am to pull one over use guys.

 

[Ben Lamb]

tastes like chicken.

 

[noharleyyet]

Great horned owl. Nice...

Ya cain't slip one by HT's resident h'ornithologist.

Nice pics Dink.

 

[Oak]

Ya cain't slip one by HT's resident h'ornithologist.

Nice pics Dink.

Since it came up in another post, here's a quick and dirty way to tell whether it's a great horned or long-eared chick (or adult) if you're not sure.

If you connect the three points created by the "ear" tufts and the beak on a GHOW, it makes an equilateral triangle. If you do it on a LEOW, it makes an isoceles triangle.

 

[DRAFTSTUD]

Yeah, What Oak said! John

 

[MNHunter]

They taste like bald eagle, mmmm!

 

[Flatrock]

They taste like bald eagle, mmmm!

I'd say they taste more like a cross between bald eagle and whooping crane.

 

[noharleyyet]

If you connect the three points created by the "ear" tufts and the beak on a GHOW, it makes an equilateral triangle. If you do it on a LEOW, it makes an isoceles triangle.

That is the same method I use to delineate my Louisiana fantasy hunt partner from the California one..

Seriously, thanks for the tutelage, interesting.

 

[Ben Lamb]

I'd say they taste more like a cross between bald eagle and whooping crane.

Curiously enough, none of them taste like spotted owl.