[OC] Baby Owls in a Saguaro

colourlesspony@pawb.social to pics@lemmy.world – 205 points –
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Great shot! Tucsonan here. What area of town or where in AZ?

Hey! It's on edge of the Ironwood national monument down Mile Wide road. Cool seeing someone else from Tucson here.

It's a... Saguowlo cactus! ๐Ÿ˜†๐Ÿ˜†๐Ÿ˜†

...I'll see myself out.

How do you build a nest hanging between cacti?

You can't really see it in the picture but the saguaro has one main truck that splits into a bunch of arms. The nest goes down to where the arms split off. Weirdly this nest is sort of communal. I've seen red hawks using the same nest.

Isnโ€™t this dangerous to the birds? Donโ€™t they get poked?