Growing older by the minute

The first time I saw this little owlet was on 19 April 2014. Yesterday morning, 22 April 2014, I was at the same place for another birding walk and of course tried to get a few more photos of this cute young one with Mom. This Great Horned pair had three owlets last year, this year just the one. We only saw this little face briefly, like before, as the baby was either down in the nest (which is immediately off my photo at the bottom), or moving deep within the tree, with its back to us. Happy, though, to get any photos. I think I still prefer the one I posted the other day and reposted in a comment box below : )

It looks like I was standing almost on a level with these owls, but they are very high up in the tree and it's impossible to avoid including a string of bright red Christmas lights that hangs right above their heads, so the lights just had to be "removed" : )

It's 9C this morning, getting up to 12C this afternoon. It actually rained yesterday evening, which felt a little strange after getting all our precipitation in the form of snow the last seven months. More rain in the forecast for this afternoon, then a sunny day tomorrow, followed by two days of mixed precipitation or snow. In other words, a typical April here, where we keep thinking that spring may have finally arrived, only to have it snow again. This happens over and over in this month.