Northern Hawk Owl

Just two days before I travel to the US. I got a bird alarm ticking in on my cellphone.

A Northen Hawk Owl was located in the forest "Gribskov" close to where I was staying.

I needed to see this! A hawk looking owl with attitude.

I started shaking and my hands turned sweaty.

I figured it was my inner self telling my body that I needed to move.

I left in a hurry.

I couldn't find the location. I took a chance and turned the car down a small forest road, not knowing where it would lead me.

Soon a furious man stopped me in the road. He threatened to give me a ticket if I didn't turn around immediately . It was a non-vehicle road, I found out. I just didn't realize this before I met this guy.

Just outside this forbidden road I parked the car and walked till I hit the correct location by luck. The owl was beautifully posing in a spurce tree. YES!

The home range of the Northern Hawk Owl is in the remote forests of the north (Canada, Scandinavia, Russia, and so on) where it feeds on small rodents.

I was lucky to see the owl hunt. It was surveying the ground, ready to attack an unsuspecting mouse.

In Denmark the Northern Hawk Owl is very rare to find. There are usually only one to five records of the bird each Winter.