Actually this is the 1st Barn Owl I've gotten shots of. I usually see Burrowing and Short-eared Owls out in the day around here but never a Barn Owl. Then on the morning of the 1st at another site about 30 miles away from this one I ran into another one. Both times they buzzed me with fly-bys giving me good shots. I wonder if the hunting is poor now and maybe they are hunting late into the morning because they are hungry. It was certainly quite cold and windy the morning I saw the second one. Froze my butt off that day!