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Incorporating the Celery Farm and Screech Owl Companion blogs
February 11, 2008
OWL: The Video (improved)
(Please click "Continue reading…" to read about the video.)
The above video tells the story of a screech owl family that lived just beyond my backyard last spring.
I re-edited just a bit after finding a new image
of the last baby owl after it left the nest — and enlarged the final
image just a tad for dramatic effect.
The video is still 3 minutes and 24 seconds long, and if you like owls or cute baby critters, it should be a fast 3:24.
The video features footage from the nesting box’s miniature video-cam, great outside photography by my friend and colleague Jerry Barrack, and a rousing soundtrack by the Hunger Mountain Boys.
If you like the video, please spread the word. As you’ll see, this was a labor of love.
I sure do hope you’ll like it. If not, let me know how I can make it better!
In the meantime, if you are new to this blog, I hope you’ll look around and then visit often.
It is about nature, birds, and a magical place in North Jersey called the Celery Farm. I try to post almost every day.
I also recently did a less ambitious video of a great blue heron walking on the ice. I also did a sweet video of a young friend who happened to be singing "What a Wonderful World" a capella just as a female wood duck flew into her nesting box.
Thanks,
Jim
29 comments
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My box has nesting pair of screech owls incubating three eggs. Hatching is due in early April. Check em out on live full color webcam:
http://www.squirrelhouse.com/enter/owlboxwebcam.html -
By the way, that video brought tears to my eyes. It is beautiful. I put a link to it on my flickr album.
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Jim, my owl is back. Have your owls returned yet. You said you had seen food.
I could not get a good shot as it was too dark. I have a question about that metal band you have around the tree. What does that do?
Will it keep the squirrels away. My problem is even if I put a barrier beneath the house, they will just jump over from a pine up above the house. I hope I can get a better photo at dusk or early morning that I know she is back. She seems to hunt in the early morning just before light, when all the birds are out eating.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/66013135@N00/2330209942/ -
The Spanish-language version will be posted tomorrow (Thursday)… Trying to expand the audience…
Thanks for the kind words… -
You did such a great job with this! Thank you for everything that you share.
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Certainly a Best Picture nominee!
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great video! nice edit. hope to see more.
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Thanks for the cool owl video.
I’ve got screech owls checking out my webcam enabled nest box several times a week now. Hopefully a pair will settle in to raise some owlets.
Bob
squirrelhouse.com -
That’s awesome. And your blog looks great.
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Hi Jim.
I discovered your blog while listening to SreeTips in BlogTalkRadio.
I live in Argentina, South America.
In my spare time I ran a blog about the birds that can be found nearby the place I live.
I really enjoy the interview, Sree tips about your blog and, OF COURSE, your owl video.
I hope you enjoy my blog (in spanish)
http://www.avesdetuzona.com
My neighbors send photos and videos to share in addition to our own material.
It’s a small but growing community.
Regards from Buenos Aires
Florencia Coelho -
I was drawn right into the music and the drama of this owl family. Thanks for a rare glimpse of other lives! Diane
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I bet you wish you’ll be looking at live feeds, very, very soon! I know I am!
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Thanks much to you and everyone else who has enjoyed the video. I hate to say, but I have seen it a few dozen times and it still makes me smile. A lot.
Best,
Jim -
Sean,
Great question!
I think that the Mom leaves because she knows that the baby owl is big enough to leave and wants him to a little iundependent,.. She stays near him and the owlets for several more weeks to make sure they are safe.
Aren’t parents great?
Jim -
I did watch the owl family last Spring – logged on every day to check them out! – So it is really gratifying to see the whole process encapsulated in 3+ neat minutes!!
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Dear Mr. Wright,
I really like the owl video. I’ve never seen anything like it before! Does the mother leave because she believes in her children and trusts them?
-Sean Franklin, age 8
(Tom’s son) -
Awesome video. I’ve promoted it at my blog:
http://owlbox.blogspot.com/2008/02/awesome-screech-owl-video.html
BTW, cool pic of the squirrel that tangled with Ace! -
Try it again… Works for me. If you still have probelms, let me know at wright@northjersey.com
Thanks. -
Help-is there a glitch in the vidoe today or is it my computer?
sally t, -
Keep this up,Jim, and Hollywood will be calling. You just may be the John “Hoot”ston of the birding world!(Groan). Thanks for the countless hours of hard work you’ve put in to make this amazing video. Thanks also to Jerry as well as the Hunger Mountain Boys. Well done!!!!!
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Awesome video and photos!
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I see a wordsearch in the future for my Coolidge speech students. I also see an exercise for term memory skills in this great illustrated short story.
thank you for enhancing my lesson plans.
I just love it.
sally t. -
Fantastic!
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Terrific job Jim !!
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Really good,just one thing missing voice over by Sir David Attenborough 10/10
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Wow! you made my day! And, I’m sure I’ll watch it quite a few times. Nifty, and thanks so much!
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This is the best film I’ve seen in years. It has everything, including a tearjerker ending and the perfect soundtrack. Thanks Jim!
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What a production!! You “Aced” it!
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Simply fantastic endeavor, your Ace family video with Hunger Mountain Boys!! Thanks!! Amazing!!
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29 comments
bob
My box has nesting pair of screech owls incubating three eggs. Hatching is due in early April. Check em out on live full color webcam:
http://www.squirrelhouse.com/enter/owlboxwebcam.html
Candy Pfau
By the way, that video brought tears to my eyes. It is beautiful. I put a link to it on my flickr album.
Candy Pfau
Jim, my owl is back. Have your owls returned yet. You said you had seen food.
I could not get a good shot as it was too dark. I have a question about that metal band you have around the tree. What does that do?
Will it keep the squirrels away. My problem is even if I put a barrier beneath the house, they will just jump over from a pine up above the house. I hope I can get a better photo at dusk or early morning that I know she is back. She seems to hunt in the early morning just before light, when all the birds are out eating.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/66013135@N00/2330209942/
Jim Wright
The Spanish-language version will be posted tomorrow (Thursday)… Trying to expand the audience…
Thanks for the kind words…
KT
You did such a great job with this! Thank you for everything that you share.
Vern
Certainly a Best Picture nominee!
Cheong Weng Chun
great video! nice edit. hope to see more.
Bob
Thanks for the cool owl video.
I’ve got screech owls checking out my webcam enabled nest box several times a week now. Hopefully a pair will settle in to raise some owlets.
Bob
squirrelhouse.com
Jim Wright
That’s awesome. And your blog looks great.
AVESDETUZONA
Hi Jim.
I discovered your blog while listening to SreeTips in BlogTalkRadio.
I live in Argentina, South America.
In my spare time I ran a blog about the birds that can be found nearby the place I live.
I really enjoy the interview, Sree tips about your blog and, OF COURSE, your owl video.
I hope you enjoy my blog (in spanish)
http://www.avesdetuzona.com
My neighbors send photos and videos to share in addition to our own material.
It’s a small but growing community.
Regards from Buenos Aires
Florencia Coelho
Diane Brown
I was drawn right into the music and the drama of this owl family. Thanks for a rare glimpse of other lives! Diane
Christine
I bet you wish you’ll be looking at live feeds, very, very soon! I know I am!
Jim Wright
Thanks much to you and everyone else who has enjoyed the video. I hate to say, but I have seen it a few dozen times and it still makes me smile. A lot.
Best,
Jim
Jim Wright
Sean,
Great question!
I think that the Mom leaves because she knows that the baby owl is big enough to leave and wants him to a little iundependent,.. She stays near him and the owlets for several more weeks to make sure they are safe.
Aren’t parents great?
Jim
Gwenn Hauck
I did watch the owl family last Spring – logged on every day to check them out! – So it is really gratifying to see the whole process encapsulated in 3+ neat minutes!!
Sean Franklin
Dear Mr. Wright,
I really like the owl video. I’ve never seen anything like it before! Does the mother leave because she believes in her children and trusts them?
-Sean Franklin, age 8
(Tom’s son)
Owlman
Awesome video. I’ve promoted it at my blog:
http://owlbox.blogspot.com/2008/02/awesome-screech-owl-video.html
BTW, cool pic of the squirrel that tangled with Ace!
jim wright
Try it again… Works for me. If you still have probelms, let me know at wright@northjersey.com
Thanks.
sally teschon
Help-is there a glitch in the vidoe today or is it my computer?
sally t,
Chris Kobelin
Keep this up,Jim, and Hollywood will be calling. You just may be the John “Hoot”ston of the birding world!(Groan). Thanks for the countless hours of hard work you’ve put in to make this amazing video. Thanks also to Jerry as well as the Hunger Mountain Boys. Well done!!!!!
Tyson
Awesome video and photos!
Sally Teschon
I see a wordsearch in the future for my Coolidge speech students. I also see an exercise for term memory skills in this great illustrated short story.
thank you for enhancing my lesson plans.
I just love it.
sally t.
Alice
Fantastic!
Doug M.
Terrific job Jim !!
Chris and Carol
Really good,just one thing missing voice over by Sir David Attenborough 10/10
Christine
Wow! you made my day! And, I’m sure I’ll watch it quite a few times. Nifty, and thanks so much!
Tom Capetta
This is the best film I’ve seen in years. It has everything, including a tearjerker ending and the perfect soundtrack. Thanks Jim!
Tom Burr
What a production!! You “Aced” it!
Deedee Burnside
Simply fantastic endeavor, your Ace family video with Hunger Mountain Boys!! Thanks!! Amazing!!