It is not uncommon or unusual to capture an image of an owl on a trail camera here. You can do a search under Owl Biology using the labels feature in the left margin of the blog and you'll find older posts featuring Northern Saw-Whet owls, Great Horned owls, rare Snowy Owls or Eastern Screech owls like this one from last week.
Last month delivered a first - at least photographic evidence anyway with this:
A Barred owl.
Common throughout the state of Wisconsin this is the first documented appearance here of Strix varia. A chunky brown and gray bird of prey it sports a large head, disc-like face, barring on the chest and no "ear-tufts". This bird dines on mice, rabbits, small birds, amphibians, reptiles and fish. Yes, fish.
One new owl species added to the life list.
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