“Look, there’s one!” A woman exclaims, pointing up into a tree. Fifty-seven pairs of eyes follow her finger. We’re on an Owl Prowl in Discovery Park with Birds Connect Seattle, and 10 minutes in, we’ve spotted one.
Our guide, Nathaniel Peters, sets up his telescope, and we take turns peering up close at the barred owl’s face. The chocolate and ash stripes that give it its name mottle like tree bark. If I had come alone, I never would have known it was there.
Learning to spot hidden owls is one of the many reasons to join the Seattle birding community, and you don’t have
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