2022-01-29, 10:31 AM
I've never seen one in DV. I guess there is some fairly stable zone in the dunes where they nest, given that one was at SPW. Would be fun to find them, because they are at least partially diurnal, so you might catch one up and about. If you don't know this, it is very cool: Owls make almost no wingbeat sounds as they fly.
Once I was camping in a riparian area in the Snake Range, NV. I"d walked away from the foliage out up a bit of a bare slope, and was just standing there (OK, I was taking a leak). A large leaf came drifting down near me; I could not see much of it as it was near dark. I turned my light on and it was a small owl. Totally silent. It just looked at me.
Once I was camping in a riparian area in the Snake Range, NV. I"d walked away from the foliage out up a bit of a bare slope, and was just standing there (OK, I was taking a leak). A large leaf came drifting down near me; I could not see much of it as it was near dark. I turned my light on and it was a small owl. Totally silent. It just looked at me.