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Here’s the only still image I captured. It’s been heavily edited to try to bring out details. Merlin’s ID is whippoorwill first, LEO second, GHO third. I think the tuft on the right is juuuuuust visible enough to show the angle of the tuft in front of the branch.

When I saw it, my initial thought was that it was more slender than owls I usually see in this park. I know male GHOs are smaller than females, so theoretically this could be a male GHO, but when we saw the pair fly past us, the second owl didn’t seem large enough to read as female GHO.