Want to have an owl nest in your backyard? It's time to start to thinking about building a nesting box for your backyard. Surprisingly, winter is the best time to put up an owl nesting box. You could ...

It’s a sound that adds to the mystery of a cold winter night – a call that makes the night a little darker and the woods a bit wilder. When I heard the great horned owl call last week from a distant ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the same way that I like to look for signs of spring, now, in the fall, I enjoy the countdown to winter. I have a short-term ...

Great horned owls are the first bird species in Ohio to begin nesting, often laying eggs by late January. Great horned owls are more commonly heard than seen, with their call being a series of deep ...

December and January we are wakened just before dawn by the calls of a pair of Great Horned Owls. (Are you up…me too-me too?) The males are returning to the territories of their mates. (After the ...

Humans aren’t the only ones with romance on their minds in February. This is the month when many species of owls, including the eastern screech owl, embark on their pair-bonding and courtship rituals.

Sometimes the sounds of the night tell a story of their own. It might be the soft howls of a hunting coyote letting others know where it is on a moonlit night. Maybe it’s the mellow chant of a common ...

A surefire and highly optimistic harbinger of spring is the great horned owl. The massive owl is the first Ohio bird species to commence nesting, sometimes laying eggs by late January. Incubating owls ...