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 […]
Plus ça change…
Came out the back door and immediately saw Daphne in the Morning Nest-Monitoring Spot. I wonder what the criteria are for Best Sitting Branches? She has three: morning, […]
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.
Sibling Skills
After two very different starts to their fledging experiences, Scooby and Shaggy are working together on skills and being adorable. Shot 5/3. I’ve also seen the adults show […]
Owl Facts
I know that I think of owls as hunting mostly with their eyeballs, but they have amazing hearing, too. Allaboutbirds.org says that barn owls have the best hearing […]