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

Thursday, March 29, 2012

A story from kanga

 A friend of mine in the Brit royal air force told me a story about when he was a pilot in the Falkland Islands and he'd fly in low from the ocean towards land to the airfield.

On the beach were multitudes of nesting penguins, all watching intently every time a plane would approach the coastline...
as the plane flew overhead, the penguins would all follow it watching, beaks going further up towards the sky, and bodies leaning back as the plane went overhead ....
and together, 10,000 penguins would all lose their balance and fall over backwards in unison ... amid squabbles of indignation and confusion!

A True Story!