This creature was not happy I was in the tree today.

[Dillweed]

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Ever feel like someone is watching you?

 

[deeker]

Great pic.

 

[tree md]

Very cool pics!

 

[ropensaddle]

lol your lucky it did not attack! Great horned owls are pretty damn mean if they want to be

 

[TimberMcPherson]

Thats very cool, nice work getting him on "film"

 

[treeseer]

Looks more surprised than unhappy.

Baldcypress?

Nest nearby?

Parents around?

 

[John Paul Sanborn]

I was in a sugar maple a few years ago and had a few chicks looking back out a hole

 

[BC WetCoast]

We took out a tree lately that had a crow's nest in it. Everybody, climbers and groundies, were getting dive bombed.

 

[Sunrise Guy]

I was deadwooding a large hackberry and had just started brushing out a large nest that I was sure had been abandoned long ago. Something told me to use my hand instead of my 192. Just as I brushed off the top third of the nest this tennis ball sized head poked up and looked at me. It looked just like any other new baby bird head you've ever seen, but about twenty times bigger! I instantly understood why a red-tail hawk was seen hovering above the tree during the whole time I was working on it. I carefully covered the nest back up as best I could and finished the job, being careful to not disturb the nest area. When I got down, Mom perched on an elm about fifty feet away and waited for me to pack up. As I drove off she flew back to the hackberry. I'm pretty sure everything turned out OK as the HO told me the nest was rebuilt over the next few days. We do get to see some cool stuff when we're aloft. That keeps me interested.