The North Woods East of the Leventritt Garden is home to many beautiful sugar maples and has perhaps the best fall color in the whole Arboretum. One fall day a fellow arborist and myself were there to safely prune out broken hanging limbs from over the walking path. I was using my trowline (a small diameter cordage with a weighted bag at the end) to install my climbing into the canopy of a sugar maple. When I took my throw, out of a cavity two thirds of the way up the trunk out popped the head of a tiny little screech owl, no taller that eight inches. I assume it just wanted to check out what all the ruckus was about. When it saw that we were not a threat, it proceeded to drift back asleep with it’s head still outside of the canopy. This was both adorable and hilarious.