From Ken Becka
Beautiful barred owl in our backyard last week in Cuyahoga county (Ohio). 8:00 am on a foggy morning. Stayed 20 minutes. He was checking out our little fish pond.
From Ken Becka
Beautiful barred owl in our backyard last week in Cuyahoga county (Ohio). 8:00 am on a foggy morning. Stayed 20 minutes. He was checking out our little fish pond.
Would it eat the fish? Certainly.
Would it eat those fish? The water looks decently deep for an owl. Even the Fish/Fishing Owls don’t like getting wet from all I’ve read, so these fish were probably just a curiosity or it was looking to see if there was an opportunity.
The Barred has a very wide diet, from mammals and birds, to snakes and worms, fish, frogs, and crustaceans. If it’s fresh meat and it can grab it, it’ll likely eat it.