I was doing my college homework today at home when I heard, through the windows, the blue jays calling and yelling at something. I thought it would be a screech-owl (or maybe saw-whet), and I wasn't dissapointed. It was a red morph eastern screech-owl, and it sat in a cavity atop a huge, tall maple tree "stump" next to our lake. Unfortunately, though, the blue jays must have harassed it a lot because it was gone within a half hour.
Also recently in my yard I've had trumpeter swans, rusty blackbirds, and pileated woodpeckers. Keith Pulles, Wright County
