It's a something "too little." I say that because the photo is too little. It's very hard to say what it is from the quality photo you have provided. Seeing the leaf makes me want to guess New Zealand Tea but it is only a guess.

That's right. Perhaps.... We won't ever know unfortunately or at least not until such as a time comes along when the tree has more distinctive traits. Let your friend that it's a Picea engelmannii and that the tree needs to be stake lightly for just a year and that the farthest branch toward the center of the photo should be clipped off at its location growing from the (main) trunk. Apical or upright growth on that tree will actually become a certainty....... Dax

Webcat, it was part of a demonstration of the use of raptors for hunting in the Viking era at the Viking Center in Ribe, Denmark. Thus the jesses and leash. I think I remember the presenter saying it was a North-American owl, and that they couldn't use a European owl because they are all protected. People were especially warned against going within pecking range of it, as it was very bad-tempered.

We think it is ash but to our untrained eye it kinda looks like pine also. We are hoping for ash. I will know for sure Monday after we close on the house