Nature Done Wright

  My wife and I heard a screech owl trilling loudly in the vicinity of our backyard on two occasions last night.

  Both times, I rushed out of the house with digital recorder and camera, and both times the owl was gone by the time I got to the backyard.

   Both times, I checked the owl cam to see if anything was happening inside the nesting box, but it has seen no action that I know of since mid-August.

  The good news is that the screech owls are still around, and that in a month or two the male will start staking out his turf  (and spending time in the nesting box, we hope) for breeding season in the spring.

  I hope to clean out the box this weekend, and I will let you know if I find anything neat.  But I expect mostly squirrel detritus.