I found one baby at 6:30pm yesterday. But Daphne was the real star, reminding me once again how magical camouflage is. Also, it’s nice to have nice neighbors.
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Journey
Here’s a map of the fledging story for the year, as it relates to my house. Yellow star is the nest. Numbers are days starting April 25, when […]
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Why did the owlet cross the road?
Thanks to my lovely neighbor Jack, I strongly suspected that the babies had moved west overnight. And indeed at sunset I found them both in a tree in […]
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This morning
IF I were guessing what’s going on and projecting human thoughts onto these birds, I might be inclined to guess that this happened this morning: Simon showed up […]
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Oops
TFW your masterful, grown-up-bird takeoff whacks your brother in the face.
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Sigh
Half-and-half featherBaby gray and adult brownChildhood: grown and lost. 5/7/23
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Pellet #3
Two surprise shrew skulls, and one pelvis that’s too large for a shrew and is probably a chipmunk or small rat. Delicious!
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Pellet #2
When I took this one apart, it was very unlike the other two, full of this very fragile red material, and it had these rigid, bent rod-like structures. […]
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Pellet #1
Pellet Aficiando G.W. looked at this and said “Either American owls chew more than ours do, or this was ripped up and fed to a baby.” How COOL […]