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Red Car Canyon: Great Horned Owl, Rare Daylight Sighting

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Photo: Jonathan Vandiveer, December 31, 2011, 10:12 AM.  What appears to be a Great Horned Owl was sleeping in a pine tree in Red Car Canyon.  Note how well camouflaged its chest feathers are, reflecting the pattern of the pine needles.  (Click on photos to enlarge.) Just minutes after the Kestrel encounter, I walked into the wooded canyon on the Red Car Property.  It was eerily quiet; no birds
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