SNN (ScrollingNetworkNews) ✿ ✿ Our Mel and Sydney returned to their nesting box with plenty of bonding occurring..but after 2.5 months of Sydney in the box from Dec 2013 to mid Feb 2014, the lack of prey gifts from Mel ( perhaps due to the severe and historic drought underway in California)and they have forgone the nesting process this year as many other raptors ✿ Compared to other owls of similar size, the Barn Owl has a much higher metabolic rate, requiring relatively more food. Pound for pound, Barn Owls consume more rodents – often regarded as pests by humans – than possibly any other creature. ✿ We remind viewers that sometimes owlets may not survive - the parents will dispose of things in "The Owl Way" -viewer discretion is advised, this is nature and the "Owl way". ✿ ~ ✿ “Animals, like us, are living souls. They are not things. They are not objects. Neither are they human. Yet they mourn. They love. They dance. They suffer. They know the peaks and chasms of being.” ― Gary Kowalski, The Souls of Animals ✿ Each species is a masterpiece, a creation assembled with extreme care and genius." ~ E.O. Wilson

Monday, August 1, 2011

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Word has reached all around the universe about the UFO’s at the Owlceanside OwlBox. Newspaper editors everywhere scrambled to make the front page news.

 Kanga reports: Daytime action in the yard today as crows were raising a ruckus forcing an owl to briefly touch down on the lawn in full daylight - the chase was on.
Crows flew back up to palm #1 and the owl appeared to get away safely.  It was too quick to identify, other than it looked like a young barn owl that touched down to escape the marauders.
A: The other 2 names a group of Barn owls are known by are a Wisdom or Study.