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Look what we found in our back yard, perched atop the pole that holds our basketball hoop. Our best guess is that this is an Eastern Screech Owl. He watched me closely as I approached with my camera, and didn’t seem to mind the flashes.
They like to explore towns, woods, swamps and cemeteries. Screech owls are named for their sound, a screech that drastically changes in pitch. They nest in boxes and hollowed-out trees and eat invertebrates, small mammals like rabbits and rodents, small birds and even reptiles.