They build nests in barns, hollow trees, and some take the nests of other birds.

The great horned owl has two eggs bigger than a hen's and reddish brown.

The tawny owl has five eggs, white and smooth; and this is the kind that hoots at night.
Another kind sounds like a child crying.

They eat mice and bats whole, and the parts that they cannot digest they make into little balls and spit out." "My gracious! how funny!" Nan was heard to observe.
"They cannot see by day; and if they get out into the light, they go flapping round half blind, and the other birds chase and peck at them, as if they were making fun.

The horned owl is very big, 'most as big as the eagle.