Each day we watch the Common Ravens and Great Horned Owls that live and breed near our home in Southern California, but we’d never never seen them interact with each other until I saw the pair of ravens chase this owl into a Sycamore tree in our backyard. The owl and one of the ravens watched the other raven object to the owl’s presence by loudly vocalizing and gesturing, to no avail. The ravens ultimately lost interest, leaving the owl to perch, preen, and sleep in this spot for the next three hours.
Some sounds were very surprising to us, like the common fox and the white-tailed deer. We hear the great horned owls at night in our canyon very frequently, and we see them as well.