Throughout the year in the Brecksville Reservation, and not just during the “owl-tumn,” owls can be seen soaring above and into mosaic fields, large landscapes with diverse plants and the ecosystems inhabiting them.
However, great horned owls, with their feather tufts standing tall on top of their heads, tend to stand out among the other owls that call the Brecksville Reservation home.
Jen Brumfield, a naturalist for the Cleveland Metroparks, said great horned owls are the third-most prevalent owl species to call the Metroparks home, making it important to understand that there’s nothing to fear about these raptors.
Being birds of prey, owls have earned the raptor classification because of their carnivorous eating habits. Unlike other carnivores, however, great horned owls hunt mice and rabbits…