Other assorted birds

4 What A Good Daddy

I left mom & baby alone so they could go back to sleep and continued on the path. Found dad standing guard duty on the same perch he used the week before. With a cold wind ruffling his ear tufts. He is facing in the direction of the nest.
Male Great Horned owl (Bubo virginianus)

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