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, October 11, 2012

Adventures with Mel & Sydney

Viewers were treated to an evening’s playlist that began with an overture of a Call & Response by Mel & Syd 7:10pm, 7:40, 7:45 & 7:56; Syd deeting in her sleep 8:09 to the tune of “Rock-a-bye Owlet”,

 Intermission 11:25pm, Syd left the stage; An unknown voice performing 2 solos 1:12am & 1:50; Syd spotted in the tree 1:53 staying till 1:58; & to the pitter patter of rain 3:39.


For the final movement, Syd arrived on the roof 6:20, took off to the trees 6:23 & returned 6:24 all while the ending of the instrumental, “William Tell Overture” by Gioachino Rossini was playing in the background.


Panda Exam 8

On the scale–he weighed 7.26 pounds!
He made a few vocalizations here and there and he is getting much more mobile–he even crawled!!

Wild for Wildlife and Nature

The Long-eared Jerboa, Euchoreutes naso, is a nocturnal mouse-like rodent with a long tail, long hind legs for jumping, and exceptionally large ears.

 It is distinct enough that authorities consider it to be the only member of both its genus, Euchoreutes, and subfamily, Euchoreutinae. Long-eared jerboas are found in the Palearctic ecozone. The specific palearctic ecozone areas they are found in are southernmost Mongolia to the Takla-Makan Desert, Mengxin, Aerijin Mountain, and Qing-Zang Plateau regions of north western China.
Long-eared jerboas in most cases are nocturnal,

The long eared jerboa's fur according to the book 100 animals to see before they die "is reddish yellow to pale russet with white underparts." There is a long eared Jerboa coin. Very little is known about the species.

Semi (A Shattering Experience)

Semi was rescued on December 31, 2011, with the help of the truck driver whose window she hit. Her only injury appeared to be a fractured pelvis which healed remarkably quickly

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Her constant 'chuffing' while being treated in the beginning have endeared her to all of us, but she belongs in the wild.
On March 5th 2012 she was released near Ship's Point, Fanny Bay.



Eagles heads turn completely white at about 5 years of age. They gradually acquire light coloured heads and dark bodies as they age - they think Semi was about 3 years old.

Australian Magpie Song

If only our Magpies sounded like this, there'd be a lot more admirers than they currently have.
Filmed in Chillagoe N Australia early in the morning.

A Snowy Owl Success Story

In late November, 2011 an emaciated Snowy owl was rescued by Mountainaire Avian Rescue Society. He was far from his Arctic home, probably driven south by a lack of food in the north.In the video the snowy is seen dining on quail.
After less than a month he was fit enough to be released, to return home when he's ready.

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