As the sun inches behind a stand of tall ponderosa pines in Washington state’s Okanogan
National Forest a shadowed figure stirs in a thicket
figure stirs in a thicket Reddish-brown with white speckles a male northern saw-whet owl ruffles his feathers opens his large yellow eyes and scans the area swEE swEE swEE swEE he sings His repetitive high-pitched call sounds like a rusty swing It is the first sound he has made in nearly a year for these s the sun inches behind a stand of tall ponderosa pines in Washington state’s Okanogan National Forest a shadowed A
