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, January 22, 2013

Adventures with Mel and Syd

Surprise-to strike or occur to with a sudden feeling of wonder or astonishment.

“Expect nothing.
 Live frugally on surprise.” ― Alice Walker
Many of us were surprised last night  with a Owl visit (9:37pm) to the outside if the box.




Again it goes back to just who this Owl is!

and yes then the inside of the box when the owl stepped in.

Mel or Syd or a stranger on the palm cam.
Do you think YOU know who this owl is?

Dandi's Video link HERE