{"id":9816,"date":"2013-10-17T03:45:44","date_gmt":"2013-10-17T09:45:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/?p=9816"},"modified":"2025-05-08T11:59:05","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T16:59:05","slug":"a-young-great-horned-owl-is-a-tiger-of-the-sky-in-the-making","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2013\/10\/17\/a-young-great-horned-owl-is-a-tiger-of-the-sky-in-the-making\/","title":{"rendered":"Young Great Horned Owl is a Tiger of the Sky in the making"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"YoungYoung Tiger of the Sky – Great Horned Owl chick<\/span><\/p>\n

This young Great Horned Owl was photographed outside of an old granary in Glacier County, Montana where is was warming up the light of the morning sun.<\/p>\n

I love the descriptive name “Tiger of the Sky” when referring to Great Horned Owls, they are fierce, fearless and ferocious and the young owl in the image above is a ‘Tiger in the Sky” in the making. It might look cute and cuddly at this age but even at this age they have a bit of the tiger in them. They will grow up to take prey that weighs up to three times as much as they weigh which includes porcupines, skunks and marmots and prey as small as earthworms, scorpions and centipedes. If it moves and isn’t a large mammal it is likely prey for the Tigers of the Sky.<\/p>\n

Life is<\/em> good.<\/p>\n

Mia<\/p>\n

Click here<\/span><\/a> to view more of my Great Horned Owl photos plus facts and information about this species.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I love the descriptive name “Tiger of the Sky” when referring to Great Horned Owls, they are fierce, fearless and ferocious and the young owl in the image above is a ‘Tiger in the Sky” in the making.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":143529,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,860,209,12],"tags":[1782,4021,4203,4134,11563,4141,4108,4067,4071,519,3967,4455,294,2315,1074,4193],"class_list":["post-9816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-avian","category-glacier-county","category-great-horned-owls","category-montana","tag-barn","tag-bird-photography","tag-bubo-virginianus","tag-chick","tag-farmlands","tag-fledgling","tag-great-horned-owl","tag-immature","tag-juvenile","tag-nature","tag-owl","tag-owlet","tag-owls","tag-summer-3","tag-tiger-of-the-sky","tag-young"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/great-horned-owl-juvenile-montana-mia-mcpherson-6944.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p11Mom-2yk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7370,"url":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2013\/02\/02\/great-horned-owl-fledgling-in-a-montana-granary-window\/","url_meta":{"origin":9816,"position":0},"title":"Great Horned Owl fledgling in a Montana granary window","author":"Mia McPherson","date":"February 2, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Currently throughout the breeding range of Great Horned Owls the owls have either begun to nest or have nested already. 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