Owl Walk at Marsh Creek

Dima and I had the chance to go with his second grade class to Marsh Creek Park to do an Owl Walk. The ranger who gave the presentation first then led us out on the trail was great with the kids and interesting. With 25 kids plus their parents traipsing over a rocky path I thought it would impossible to hear or see anything let alone an owl especially when one guy's phone rang as the ranger was playing a cd with a screech owl call on it to call one over to us... well next thing you know we saw one fly over to a tree above us and it called back to the cd - all the kids were told not to talk but to point instead and they did a good job of quietly pointing to where the owl was. Then it flew above us again and perched further into the woods. When it first flew over Dima was pressed up against me and a little freaked out. It was cool to see the owl and th ekids were disappointed that we didn't stay too long, but we were told that it could have young in the area and could be trying to defend them and we didn't want to harass them too long.