FIELD GUIDE
Hereâs looking at you: In the woods â or in your backyard â you might see a barred owl this winter
By Don Lyman Globe Correspondent,Updated January 7, 2021, 6:40 p.m.
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A barred owl foraging on the forest floor of Franklin Park Wilderness became startled and flew into a tree.Stephen H. Baird
A few years ago while walking in the woods on a winter day in the Middlesex Fells Reservation, a few miles north of Boston, I stopped and looked around. In the fading light of late afternoon, about 30 feet away, I saw a pair of big, dark eyes in a large, round, grayish-brown disc-shaped face staring at me.