Nature Done Wright

    Mrs. Ace is still on four eggs in the owl nesting box — and Mr. Ace is perched

            The male red-shouldered hawk who has nested with his mate in Allendale near the Ramsey

   Welcome to the merry maternal month of May.   Here we are, 30 days after the beginning of incubation,

        The above image is a sonogram of Mrs. Ace making her after-dusk whinny calls.     

   While my wife and I wait for Mrs. Ace and the robin to hatch their eggs, other birds are

   Mrs. Ace continues to sit on four eggs — as we enter Day 29 (the egg was laid on

   At last count, Mrs. R was sitting on three marvelously blue eggs. I have read that four eggs is

   All systems in order.    Mrs. Ace the screech owl on her eggs, calmer than me…     Audio and

   You read that right: pipping.     It’s a birding term for when the baby bird starts to break

    Besides Mrs. Ace and her four of a kind, I can see at least two other nesting sites