Eastern screech owls are strictly nocturnal, which makes the sight of them during the day all that more special.

Nature:Sandhill cranes aren't unexpected in central Ohio During the day, a roosting screech owl typically holes up in a tree cavity or nest box. Sometimes they’ll sit tight against a tree trunk ...

A tiny screech owl is back home on Back Road in Randolph County. While driving home after dark on Oct. 19, concerned ...

Raptor specialist Jo Santiago, left, and raptor rescue volunteer Connor Sneberger prepare to release a newly healthy screech owl along Back Road in Randolph County. (Photo courtesy of Keri Lewis ...

Winter is the time when owls are the most vocal, according to the Ohio Division of Wildlife. Barred owls, great horned owls, ...

The large northwest subspecies max­welliae is the palest and most faintly marked. The western screech owl’s bill is blackish or dark gray at the base, but gray-plumaged individuals are ...

The goggle-eyed Cuban screech owl gets its other common name, bare-legged owl, from its featherless lower appendages. While most of the world’s more than 200 owl species wear feathers down to ...

Of those, the more advanced birders were excited by birds such as the Pine Siskin and Winter Wren. My favorite bird of the day, however, was one that I’m sure I’ve walked by dozens of times without ...