A short-eared owl at the University of Wyoming. My sister took this last week on her cameraphone when the birds were visiting the university. The little animal at right is called a burrowing owl and she was told it goes into gopher holes; she's not sure if it does this to retrieve food, or to sleep, or what. It is about 8 to 10 inches fully grown.

You know you must be in someplace like Wyoming if my sister could take these pictures last week on a bright, warm, sunny spring day, and then Mackenzie could take these pictures only a few blocks away and only a few days later. Spring in the Rockies!