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

Sunday, October 9, 2011

A Fan Favorite

A wonderful and favorite video of many of our viewers and chatters that as been asked for by request.
This film is a tribute to the courage and tenacity of a pair of Barn Owls that managed to perform a miracle during the wettest British summer on record. They reared 8 young.
It is only the third time this as been achieved since owl boxes were first monitored in the 1930s.

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This is a T-Shirt sent to purdyfarmsBecky from the SPO
(Sportsman Paradise Online) chat room and sent to her by Robert Kewarth the producer of the video.
Wow how cool is that !