I certainly don’t see one of these very often. He was perched on my back fence facing a small creek that runs behind my property line. It had been raining during the day, and temps were cold and getting colder. My son, who is eleven, was the first to recognize it: it’s an owl. I was simply too amazed and grabbed the camera and figured I would identify it later. Sorry about the lousy shot, it is taken from inside the house behind two glass panes and it was overcast that day.
