But like Photoexpert, in my heart I know there are still spectacular discoveries to be made in the animal kingdom.

NONE of the major news media in the area has mentioned this story even as a “silly supplement”.

Which is another indication that it’s just another fake.

As for law enforcement it is the Dimmit County Sherriff’s Department that covers Carrizo Springs and you can contact THEM via
Phone: (830) 876-9263
or
Fax: (830) 876-9263

or you snail-mail them at

103 N 5TH ST
Carrizo Springs, TX
78834

If you would like to ask them about their giant owl.

Photoexpert i like youre comments. It ís in the realm of possibility!

How difficult would it to be for locals to determine if the officers in the photo are really from Carrizo Springs, track them down, and ask them if the owl was really that big?

Great Grays have frequently showed up outside their usual range when feeding competition pressures and other factors make them roam. And they often end up like this poor bugger, shot for a trophy.

At their largest they weigh just a bit over four pounds.

The body is that of the Snowy Owl while the head appears to be that of the Burrowing owl..although it is a little to pixilated to be certain.

Excuse my typos in the above post. I just got up from a nap. way=weigh. And there are a couple of missing words in a few sentences. Not my normal posting style. Off to get a cup of coffee.

That is a rather large owl. As AlyoshaK pointed out, it looks like a typical cell phone photograph. With that being said, it would be a waste of my time to try and look for a cut paste or digital manipulation in analyzing the photograph. I did a cursory review of it for about a minute and it looks to be a genuine photograph with no glaring or obvious manipulation. It is what it appears to be.

As maslo63 pointed out, birds to not way that much. So any person posting here that two men could not hold up such a bird is beyond me. I agree with maslo63, just because what he says makes perfect common sense.

So sometimes, photographic analysis is not needed, just good common sense will do. Sasquatch posted that it is about the biggest owl he has ever seen. Ditto, I agree. It is not beyond the possibility of this owl occurring naturally in the wild. It’s similar to when I see a big fish picture. I say to myself, WOW, what a huge fish. I have never seen one that big. And common sense tells me that is not beyond of possibility that a fish of that species can grow that big. I just have not personally seen one. So this is no mystery to me. I don’t automatically scream “fake”. I just have not seen one that big but in my heart, I KNOW they exist.

aargeee mirrors my sentiments above in his post. When we see a poor pixel count on a photo, it automatically becomes suspicious, one way or another. How true that is! Some will immediately call fake and some will immediately say it is real. This is when common sense should kick in for those of us who are deciding whether a photograph is authentic or not.

For me, common sense tells me that the way this photo was taken, is that the photographer just happen to be there with and took a photo with the only camera he had on hand, his cell phone camera. Nothing out of the ordinary there. And it looks like the men in uniform were there for a reason, they probably received a call and were simply doing their jobs. The photo is not blatantly or poorly digitally manipulated at a cursory glance.

So we have to ask ourselves the question, could an owl this big exist naturally in the wild? If it were a 20 foot owl, I would scream fake and begin to look for clues to back up that statement. But this owl is in the realm of a naturally occurring creature and could easily exist in the wild. There might even be a few owls that are larger. So I lean towards it being real. I evaluate the other points using common sense and come to the conclusion it is a real owl in this photo.

With that being said, I would like to know more about it and the circumstances surrounding this find.