Burrowing Owl

I’ve mentioned repeatedly that it is my ongoing quest to find burrowing owls. I’m generally not very successful, but part of the thrill is the challenge, right? A park ranger at Coyote Hills told me a couple of years ago where to look for a burrowing owl in that park, but the first year, I never saw him and may have been looking too late in the season. Last year, I used my camera to take a bunch of pictures of the area I thought he was in, didn’t think I saw anything while at the park, went home, processed the pictures, and saw him hiding in one of them! But then I was never able to find him again on subsequent visits. THIS year I went back to Coyote Hills and on my first try found a DIFFERENT owl in a different area of the park! This was the beginning of a string of successes…