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Don't know if y'all love nature as much as I do, but the wife and I were out in the back yard last night burning wood in the outdoor fireplace, and I saw movement from tree to tree, and being that I can see better at night than most, I knew what it was. I grabbed my camera, and got these pictures of a tiny screech owl. It is about the size of a soda can. It was back there for over 2 hours, and let me get within 5 feet of it to grab some of these pictures without flying away! We normally get very large Barn Owls at night, but this is the first time I saw a screech owl in my back yard. We heard 2 or 3 more calling to this one from several houses away, but this one would not leave our yard. Sorry that they aren't in better focus, but it was at 9 pm, and pitch dark. I had to guess more or less where it was, and point and shoot, being I couldn't see it through the view finder or on the LCD display.