To catch an elf owl

Wait until evening.  Find the right hole in the utility pole to watch.  Wait until evening.

 

Wait until it’s almost too dark to see.  When the black hole turns gray, snap a shot.

 

That means there is a little owl face in that previously empty space.

 

Elf owls are tiny little things; the smallest owl in North America; about the size of a sparrow; weighing little more than an ounce.  Here is what they look like in good light.

(Not my photo.)

 

They don’t go very far north in the U.S.