Tonight, we found one owl high in a tree with the help of some robins.  While we watched it, we thought we heard another owl calling, so we may have had two in the area.

The owl we could see stretched and flew out quickly dropping from the tree tops to almost the ground in one quick flight.  We were able to find it sitting on a small branch of a sapling next the stream.  It was at eye level.

The owl then flew onto a mud flat on the edge of the stream.  It paused for quite a good amount of time.  It did not bathe, but it took a number of drinks of water.  Then if flew off to the south and we lost track of it.

The fledglings have gotten very mature, so I was unsure if we had seen a fledgling or an adult.  When I processed the photographs it was obvious from the band on the bird’s foot.  It was an adult.