Went in search of an owl - and found one ....

.... just not the species I was after, lol! After a three-hour walk in Fish Creek Park two days ago, I went straight to the Inglewood Bird Sanctuary. I don't usually go "chasing" after a rather more special bird that has been reported, but I will sometimes do so if it's an owl : ) Someone had photographed a little Northern Saw-whet Owl there recently, so I thought it was worth going to see if there was any sign of it. Ha, no there wasn't, but instead I found myself staring into a big, round, yellow eye, deep within a Spruce tree. Yep, a Great Horned Owl. When I first caught sight of the eye, I was seeing the owl from a different angle - at the end of my walk, it had shifted a little and was easier to see. Bumped into a fellow birder down there and when he couldn't find the Saw-whet either, he wondered if maybe this Great Horned Owl might have had Saw-whet for lunch. It was sitting in one of the trees where the little owl had apparently been seen.