Owl (Barred)

The Barred Owl’s hooting call, “Who cooks for you? Who cooks for you-all?” is a classic sound of old forests and treed swamps. But this attractive owl, with soulful brown eyes and brown-and-white-striped plumage, can also pass completely unnoticed as it flies noiselessly through the dense canopy or snoozes on a tree limb. Originally a bird of the east, during the twentieth century it spread through the Pacific Northwest and southward into California. 

The adult is 16–25 in long with a 38–49 in wingspan. Weight in this species is 1.10 to 2.31 lb. It has a pale face with dark rings around the eyes, a yellow beak and brown eyes. It is the only typical owl of the eastern Americas which has brown eyes; all others have yellow eyes. 

This Owl above is chasing a squirrel as you can see in the bottom of the pictures.

Photographed in the wild, Kissimmee, FL