describes a nesting hollow in a tree that had been used for more than ten years by a pair of Powerful Owls. Fires ripped through the area and burned the tree from the inside out. After the fire, the pair sat in an adjacent tree. “Large forest owls make a really obvious grieving noise when they’ve lost a chick,” she says. “And they did the same thing for this tree hollow. It was quite heart-wrenching.” Once

