I knew she was nesting somewhere nearby. I saw her one midnight as a patch of paleness perched high in a tree behind our house, when I looked out my window. Today as I walked across our yard she swooped by me. I sat in a lawn chair for half an hour, and finally she returned.

Great Horned Owl

After posing high up in a poplar for a few minutes, she flew by me again. I remember wondering at the stick she held in her claws. It was only as I looked at the photos on my computer tonight that I realized that was no stick she flew over my head with…

Great Horned Owl

I have Ophidiophobia. Snake phobia. I sit here at my computer and shudder, and want to lift my feet off the floor, every time I look at these photos or think of how she flew over me with that!