Tonight, I was returning to the cabin from the barn. Coming up the road at the top of the hill, there are a couple of t-posts on each side of the road where electric fence is attached.

Perched on one of the posts was a juvenile barred owl. When I realized what I was looking at, I was no more than 5-8ft from him. I guess the headlights on the buggy must have blinded him because he sat perched on the post for what seemed like 5 minutes, doing gawky owl-things with his head before he flew off.

We see and hear lots of these guys out here and it seems like they're getting used to us being around...we've seen them fairly close to the cabin in the evenings and several times have come across them perched on a fence post at the side of a road out here on the place.

Tonight was about the closest I've ever been to one outside of the Brevard County Zoo.

What a place I live in.

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