Webb Garrison: Saw-whet Owl

Artist: Webb Garrison
1944 -
Nationality: American
Artwork Year: 1978
Image Size: 11.75 by 12.25 inches
Overall Size: 14 by 15 inches
Medium: Water Color on Hot Press Illustration Board

The small Saw-whet Owl takes his name from the curious notes he repeatedly utters during the mating season. Sounding much like the filing of a saw, the Saw-whet Owl's call is heard from February through April. Then, the small bird falls silent for the remainder of the year. The Saw-whet Owl, measuring a mere seven to eight inches in length, is one of the smallest owls. Like the Barred Owl, the Saw-whet Owl makes his home in the damp, dense forests of Canada and the Northern United States where he sleeps by day and hunts his diet of mice and insects by night. He chooses a deserted woodpecker hole or other hollow for a forest nest and lines it with moss, bark fragments, and feathers. Here the female lays four to seven white eggs and incubates them for twenty-one to twenty-eight days. The eggs hatch revealing tiny white owlets. Over the ensuing weeks, the owlets develop the distinctive juvenile plumage of chocolate brown upperpart feathers. At age four weeks the young leave the nest. The first molt occurs within the young owls' first year, transforming their upper feathers into a dusky brown with streaked crown and their underpart feathers into a cream color. As winter approaches, the majority of the population of Saw-whet Owls shifts south, sometimes as far as Louisiana and Georgia.

This painting was originally published on the Fleetwood® First Day Cover for the U.S. 15¢ Saw-whet Owl stamp issued August 26, 1978.

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