Remember yesterday, when I said I looked through a broken window and found no surprises?

I thought the same thing was going on here, in the very next window to the east. I saw those scales and the three slants of light, and got the shot. Later, when I got home and downloaded the SD card, I saw what I had somehow missed in the moment – that owl (and those talons!). And there was my surprise…

Hale County, Texas
photographed 8.10.2019