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

Wednesday, December 7, 2011

Sacred Friend - Wildlife Rehab

She may have been the youngest of the six barn owls released by
Sacred Friend - Wildlife Rehabilitation on Dec 3rd but not the smallest.
The release of the six baby barn owls that came into their care on Oct 11th. They were all grown up and ready to go. All six banded prior to their release. They were released at two different farms; three on each. There were 3 females and 3 males. Now, they are back out into the wild doing what Barn Owls do.



While in their care, they ate over 4,000 mice.
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 They're all about wildlife. They take in orphan, injured & sick wildlife and nurse them back to health and release them back into the wild. We are not paid by anyone to do so. We are state & federally licensed. Everything a wildlife rehabilitator does is paid completely out of their own pocket.

We are located at 6412 Natrona Ave, Norfolk, VA 23509.
Non-profit 501(c)3 is pending.