Owl ID

[AndyRealtree]

Figured this is a new ID topic.. Found this in Barstow, TX and have an idea of what it is but don't know for sure.. What it be?

[flyby]

Burrowing Owl. Nice pic.

[AndyRealtree]

Burrowing Owl. Nice pic.

That's what I was thinking.. I'm pretty sure she was standing in front of her nest as there was a big hole in the ground.

[JP Weld]

Those things are cool, but they creep my wife out! She is Mexican and extremely superstitious. She believes that if you make eye contact with it, you will die.

[AndyRealtree]

Those things are cool, but they creep my wife out! She is Mexican and extremely superstitious. She believes that if you make eye contact with it, you will die.

I'm screwed..

[talltexasshoote]

Definitely burrowing. They are cool. I love it when they turn their heads upside down to look at you.

[AndyRealtree]

Definitely burrowing. They are cool. I love it when they turn their heads upside down to look at you.

She did that and I just started Lol

[Shane]

I've never seen one outside a prairie dog town.

[MySRT8U]

Lechusa!

[dpg481]

I'm screwed..

now we all are, thanks buddy

[AndyRealtree]

now we all are, thanks buddy

Lol. Hey, what are friends for?

[ken]

I've never seen one outside a prairie dog town.

Me neither.

[froghunter]

Lechusa!

yep.

[Trinidad434]

Man I'm so dead!

[CrossTimbers]

There used to be an entire colony of them in Lubbock on the median of 19th and 289 by the Academy.