photo by Greg Hofmann

4/11/2005: If you stand several yards outside the entry to the big barn on the Reserve and point your binoculars into the near owl box in the rafters, this is what you're likely to see - Barn Owl (Tyto alba) chicks looking back at you. The chicks are still wearing their white juvenile plumage, but should begin to acquire adult feathers soon. Click here for more chick pix from last year, and here for a photo of an owl chick in transitional plumage.