I've seen them around here around Quinault several times over the years. I remember reading somewhere that unlike normal owls, they are actually active in the middle of the day too.
They are actually a really small owl, a little smaller than a robin. I seen one back in December in the top of a 10 foot fur tree while I was driving out of a clearcut deer hunting. It was like 15 feet from the truck and sat there for like 5 minutes while I took dozens of pics of it. Crappy thing is that it was real late in the day and damn near every picture turned out either way too dark or blurry.