Pat Cooper, a friend of this blog, was inspired to write a poem based on one of my posts

       Let me tell you about the five screech owl eggs that rest snugly in the nesting box

   Several friends of this blog have asked me to give  Mrs. Ace a name, or to hold a contest

     Mrs. Ace is a fast worker this spring — four eggs in eight days vs. four eggs in

          I took this video with the digital recorder on Saturday night. I ran the recorder

    I awoke early this morning to find two screech eggs and a dead little critter.  Since it was

  Very early the other morning, I activated the nest-box cams to see if Ace (or Mrs. Ace) was in

  When a crew cleaned out the wood-duck boxes on Lake Appert this winter, they found this screech owl scrunched

The wood-duck nesting box is now rewired with a new videocam, and while it doesn't seem to perform as well

  Just a quick heads up that Jerry Barrack and I are doing a free talk and show on the