DEAR JOAN: A few months ago, we built a nest box for a screech owl as we had heard some in our area. Now, several months later, after mounting the box in a tree and filling it with wood shavings ...

DALLAS — An owl’s wing was broken after a squirrel in North Texas ... group called Screech Owls of Flower Mound, whose members often house owls and have cameras in their owl boxes.

Boxes for Eastern screech owls need to be much smaller than the barred owl, for example. Perhaps unsurprisingly, where these boxes are placed — whether in the center of a wood lot or along the e ...

DALLAS — You could say a North Texas bird rescue group gave a hoot when they recently rescued a screech owl that’d gotten stuck in a basketball post. A homeowner called Blackland Prairie ...

Normally only gray morph birds are found on the Great Plains and in southernmost Texas. The large northwest subspecies max­welliae is the palest and most faintly marked. The western screech owl ...

The kestrel boxes are best placed on the edge of a field. Screech owls like them in the woods. The screech owl boxes should be put on poles, “otherwise squirrels take over,” Kosakowski said.

She put up a nest box four years ago, and a female eastern screech-owl finally moved in ... You can spot this species from Colorado and western Texas to the Pacific Coast, south into Mexico ...