2 begging juvenile barred owls, one with an injured eye?

Two juvenile barred owls near Lake Whatcom, Bellingham, Washington. I love their raspy begging calls. I'm not sure what's wrong with the first owl's eye. From some angles it looked like it was completely blind, from other angles it looked like it could maybe see a little. When I was editing this together I zoomed in at one point but it's too hard to tell. And the shaky camera work isn't helpful. I was free-handing my 7D while sitting in a cloud of mosquitoes under a bush at the base of their tree.

"When the [Barred Owl] young leave the nest, at about 4 weeks, they are not able to fly, but crawl out of the nest using their beak and talons to sit on branches. These Owls are called branchers. They  fledge at 35 to 40 days. Once they lose their down, there is no difference between adult and juvenile plumage.

Parents care for the young for at least 4 months, much longer than most other Owls. Young tend to disperse very short distances, usually less than 10 kilometres (6 miles), before settling. Pairs mate for life and territories and nest sites are maintained for many years." http://www.owlpages.com/owls.php?genus=Strix&species=varia

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• barred owl
• barred
• owlets
• juvenile
• begging
• injured
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• eye
• bellingham
• washington
• lake whatcom
• Cannon 7D