Nature Done Wright

  Daylight Savings Time began early Sunday morning, three weeks sooner this year, and how I’ve hearing a lot on the radio about how  it is a farce that doesn’t save much energy.

  Maybe, but I know that Ace the screech owl is totally oblivious to humans’ new schedule.

That means I don’t have to get up well before 6 a.m. to see him arrive back in the nesting box.

  And I don’t have to rush home from work to see him perched in the opening before head out into the twilight just after 6 p.m.

  Ace’s schedule, timed so closely to the movement of the sun, is amazingly predictable these days — to the point it’s easy to forget that he is a totally wild creature who comes and goes whenever he feels like it.

  As the days grow longer, Ace will have less darkness at night to hunt by.

  I assume that as the weather gets warmer, Ace’s hunting will getting progressively simpler, and he’ll have a wider smorgasbord to choose from — not just rodents and birds but insects and, believe it or not, some small fish.