Nature Done Wright

   Want to learn more about screech owl and see some amazing — and I mean amazing — original owl photos that have never been seen on this blog?

   On Friday night, at 8 p.m., my colleague and friend Jerry Barrack and I are doing a free presentation on screech owls for the Fyke Nature Association at the Wyckoff Library. The public is invited.

   We also have some amazing new wood duck shots of Jerry’s that we’d love to share.

   If time allows, we’ll present our two new children’s books, "Icky" and "Swan Babies," which were supposed to be released last spring until Murphy’s law kicked in a bit.

   The show is the culmination of five years of nesting-box adventures just beyond my backyard, which abuts the Celery Farm.

   Jerry and I will do a slide show featuring photos from all five years, shots using the screech cam this past spring, and roughly a dozen of Jerry’s great shots of the owls in action outside the nesting box.

   But wait: There’s more. We also hope to show a two-minute video of the best of the screech-owl cam — featuring the Fab Four, the screech owlets that the stork brought this spring (or something like that).

  Our friend Seymour Drakes will be on hand as well.

   The free show is at the Wyckoff Library, Friday Night at 8 p.m.

   One bit of warning: The Wyckoff Library is next to impossible to find without good directions and/or a map. I learned the hard way seven years ago.

   The address is 20 Woodland Avenue. I suggest Google-Mapping it…

   We hope to see you Friday night.

   If you can’t make it, we’ll let you know of other appearances coming up.

   (The next one is Allendale Day, Saturday Oct. 6, where I’ll be sharing a table with Fyke.)