Very sad news today, friends. Our wonderful neighbor Jack found a deceased owl in his beautiful field of henbit. The owl had no obvious injuries anywhere on them and the area showed no signs of a fight on the ground. We did have a belt of tornado-generating storms last night… My brain wants to spin a narrative in which this was Hooty, not as skilled and experienced at riding out intense winds as an older adult. We’ll see who hoots in the area over the next days. In any case, the odds are good that this owl had spent a chunk of their lifetime in my yard. So the Other Human very kindly dug a huge hole a few feet from the nest tree, and they will rest peacefully here where they once experienced love.
