The Barred Owl in Central Park was active in the afternoon before I got to see it.  It caught a chipmunk and had another encounter with a Cooper’s Hawk before I arrived.

I was there at dusk and got to see it move around for about twenty minutes.

A Barred Owl has been in Central Park for at least two days.  I caught up with it on Friday and Saturday.  On Saturday, there was a bit of a standoff between it and a Cooper’s Hawk.

The first day of winter brought a Long-eared Owl to Central Park.  A wonderful bird that flew out for the evening around 5:15.

A Great Horned Owl was found in Central Park today.  I came late in the day so I could see the fly out. By the time I arrived the owl, which had been harassed by Blujays, was now high in a tree and tough to photograph.  But the owl moved now and then, and I got some good looks.  I was able to see the owl preen, do some pre-flight stretches, and then fly out.

There was a Great Horned Owl in Central Park on Wednesday.  There are concerns by many Central Park birders that owl safety is being compromised for “twitter likes” and so I thought it might be good idea to wait a few days before posting these photos.

A Northern Saw-when Owl was in Central Park today.  It may be an owl that over wintered in the park or a migrant.  I was surprised to see one so late in the year.  But I looked up the frequency of Northern Saw-when Owl sighting over the last twenty year in Manhattan on eBird.org, I discovered Northern Saw-when Owls are seen until mid-April, with late March being a peak period for sightings.