Owls and the Evening

To Oliver's Woods this January 20 evening at 5:30. The past week or fortnight each time I enter the NW entrance a barred owl silently flies away eastward in front of me. I think it is perched at sunset in the big pecan south of the NW entrance. I did not see it this evening. When I was in the center of the Woods I heard an owl in the distance, off to the east. I walked over to the junction of the East Wash and the West where a barred owl nested the past couple of years. There have been some big changes. Two of the largest old cottonwoods are down - one broken huge top lays across the wash by the big bur oak that washed out there. The juniper the owl used to perch in at sunset is still standing, healthy.
Hearing the owl in the distance I gave my  screech owl whistle imitation (poor) and got a reply from the barred owl -  over-calling me.

This time of the year the Woods are the most bare. You can see through to distant trees and sound travels easily. I noticed the forms
With the light falling and twilight coming on, I turned back west to depart.