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, January 26, 2012

A day in the life of Mel and Sydney

M&S



Treat # 1
HORK Café ☞ served up of the finest mix in town. Starting with Appetizer of Mouse, Main Course- Gopher Liver Pates.
Over Easy!
Stop and Drop Fling and Fly Delivery.
Sydney wall scratching

Treat # 2


Video of Fling and Fly treat #1 delivery by Mel


Mel brought Syd a treat - goes out, comes back in, bonds, leaves - Syd right behind him leaving WITH the treat in her mouth. Comes back a few minutes later - no treat.
Dunno if she ate it or returned it to the briarpatch ♥
Sydney brought her second treat back into the nest after she flew off with it. Is she building her pantry??