Just saw a large owl swoop through the yard, then alight on a long horizontal branch of a dogwood. Can still see it in the light of the streetlight, but not enough to light identify it. The dogwood limb is over a ditch that I haven't mowed in 3 weeks, a good place for small rodents, baby rabbits and snakes to shelter.

Barred Owl is the mostly likely suspect, but I will never know. The lovely and silent swoop of the large wingspan is enough.