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 […]
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 […]
Oops
TFW your masterful, grown-up-bird takeoff whacks your brother in the face.
Sigh
Half-and-half featherBaby gray and adult brownChildhood: grown and lost. 5/7/23
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!
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. […]
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 […]
Shaggy Flies
Last night I found the kids, and happily they were back in our yard. Before I could even finish rejoicing, I saw an adult owl flying down the […]
Takeoff
YOU GUYS YOU GUYS THIS IS SHAGGY I have footage and I’ll try to edit it tomorrow but right now it’s just too dusty in my eyeballs.