Every autumn, North Branch Nature Center in Montpelier, Vermont hosts a banding station for migrating northern saw-whet owls, a common but seldom-seen woodland species. Tig Tillinghast (husband of Northern Woodlands publisher Elise) took this photo of the couple’s children inspecting a newly caught owl on October 17, 2020, “by far the highlight of our family’s autumn.” He maximized the camera’s negative exposure compensation setting, allowing the headlamps to focus light on the bird. Visit here for more information about NBNC’s work, including its contributions to Project Owlnet, a nationwide owl research project.