This weird little interaction happened on April 23, hours *after* the owlets made their to-humans debut. Because I’ve seen Daphne “chide” Simon several other times in the last […]
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Drama Mama
I went back to the very beginning of fledging today. This video is from Saturday, 4/22, just minutes before Neighbor Kathy spotted the babies for the first time. […]
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Visit
At 8:30 last night, Neighbor Jack texted to say he had two babies and an adult in his yard again. They were in the same oak tree they’d […]
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Checking In
Simon, this afternoon: “Once upon a time, you were excited when you saw me. I’m still pretty hooty!”
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Fin
Here’s the kids. They ruminated about this jump, which is facing south-west, for about an hour. They decided no, then they moved to another branch and took a […]
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5/9
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 […]