Owl Hunt

Earlier this week I heard about an Eastern screech owl hanging out in a wood duck house in park in Maple Grove.  The park is on Fish Lake near Hwy. 94 and Weaver Lake Road.  A good friend of mine lives very near to that park so she offered to accompany me on a screech owl hunt this afternoon.  My friend jogs though this park several times a week.  She has seen owls pass silently over her head when she jogs in the early morning darkness but she's never seen one clearly.  We arrived about a half hour before sunset.  We stayed and hunted for owls for about an hour.  We even looked for the telltale whitewash that some owls leave below their favorite roosting spots.  We came up empty handed as far as owls go.  But we enjoyed walking through the leaves, watching the waves roll into shore, watching flocks of ducks and geese, watching the sun go down and light up the clouds in purple and pink, and talking.