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, June 4, 2012

SPECIAL CHAT SESSION for our chatters & Veiwers with EE

EE (EagleEye) our Raptor Expert is going to conduct a special chat session at 7pm PST on Saturday 6/9 for our chatters and viewers.
Deadline for questions by email is 7pmPST Thursday 6/7/12.
The session will run very much like we did for the schools. EE will have the room, post Q&As and once finished she may ask if they're any more questions.
Come join the fun and ask what you have always wanted to know but were afraid to ask.

  •  Please email your Barn Owl Q's to
  •   melandsydney4schools @ hotmail.com no later than 7pm OB Thursday 6/7