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, July 29, 2012

Fowl - No Score

WESTON, Mass. — A juvenile great horned owl that got tangled in a soccer net behind a Massachusetts home has been rescued.



Biologist Tom French, assistant director of the Massachusetts Division of Fisheries and Wildlife, cradles an injured juvenile great horned owl after rescuing it from a soccer net in which it got entangled in Weston, Mass. French said that the owl probably got snarled during its nocturnal activities, and that its injuries were superficial. The owl likely will spend about a week at a Tufts University veterinary school in nearby Grafton before being released into the wild.

The owl was spotted by a pest control worker at the property in Weston on Wednesday afternoon, likely flew into the net on Tuesday night.