Screech Owl with Field Mouse — Framed Piece scarves and bare branches — the

and bare branches — the whole composition a study in the texture of a Canadian forest floor in late autumn

in the garden

Glen Loates is a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts whose large mammal studies are among the most powerful in Canadian wildlife art

fostering a love and appreciation for wildlife in young readers

with its olive back

Screech Owl with Field Mouse — Framed Piece scarves and bare branches — theA Screech Owl perches on an autumn birch branch, a field mouse hanging from its talons. The composition is built from the leaves of the birch some still green, some turning, one fallen and hanging from a twig with the owl at the centre, looking directly outward. This 1973 watercolour balances the precision of the owl's intricately streaked plumage with the casualness of the autumn birch setting. The Screech Owl's cryptic plumage all bark brown streaks