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

Tuesday, November 27, 2012

Ozzie and Harriet - Egg time

The first egg arrive yesterday at the Southwest FL. Eagle cam. Congratz to Ozzie & Harriet (Eagle parents)and their moderators, chatters and channel owner.

So far there has not been a lot of brooding of the egg as eagles tend to wait until the clutch is complete so eggs will hatch on or about the same day.

In Florida, eggs are laid from November through January. 
Eagles lay from one to three eggs.
Five to ten days after a successful copulation, the female lays a speckled off-white or buff colored egg about the size of a goose's.
The second egg is laid a few days later, followed by a possible third.
The 35 days of incubation duties are shared by both male and female, but it is the female who spends most of her time on the nest.


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