Riley Park, Orange Co., 8-07. © John  C. Avise.

Western Screech-Owl

Megascops kennicottii

Strigiformes, Strigidae

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Riley Park, Orange Co., 8-07. © John  C. Avise.
Juvenile. Trabuco Canyon, Orange County, CA. 6/2/05. © Dan Lockshaw, Optics4Birding. I had heard this in a nest hole and went back the following night and they had apparently just leaped out of the nest hole and were climbing around on branches low to the ground.