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

Saturday, September 3, 2011

Freed & Flying Free !

Nine orphaned barn owl owlets that were raised with the help of a couple of surrogate mother barn owls have flown the nest at the Northwest Raptor and Wildlife Center in Sequim, Wash




UPDATE from Aug 17th blog post “ Learning the ropes ”

The owlets were brought from three different nests in April and May, and the center says it's extraordinary that all survived.
The birds were freed last week in a "soft release" in which they were allowed to come and go as they pleased. The center says two wild barn owls started calling in the night and all the owls answered the "call of the wild."


The all-volunteer nonprofit center treats injured or orphaned wild animals so they can be released.
Our hero’s !
Read more about them
http://www.king5.com/news/slideshows/NW-Raptor-Center-releases-nine-owls--128691413.html