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Incorporating the Celery Farm and Screech Owl Companion blogs
June 4, 2007
Time flies
To appreciate how easy it is for a young owlet to hide in the Celery Farm these days, consider the three photos shown in this posting.
The shots were taken from the window over the past few months.
In most of the shots, the owl box is in the very middle of the picture and the wood duck box is on the left in the middle.
The shot above is after a late winter snow storm. The shot below was taken in late March, and the one below that was taken in last week.
When nature gets going, it really gets going.
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My first night, two went out of the box at once. I could tell one was going to fledge
because they kept doing that “ready, set,
go” in the opening. Like a kid trying to get up the nerve to jump. I was sitting in the other yard, with the binoculars having checked the yard to be sure no cats or hawks were around. Just about dusk when I could barely see, I saw the first one take a swooping downward leap. I guess the next one went too but it was too dark. And for about two hours we heard the most horrendous crys of the two owlets. Like a baby wailing only worse. Did not sound anything like what I thought a baby screech owl would sound like. The next day, no parents at the house.
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My first night, two went out of the box at once. I could tell one was going to fledge
because they kept doing that “ready, set,
go” in the opening. Like a kid trying to get up the nerve to jump. I was sitting in the other yard, with the binoculars having checked the yard to be sure no cats or hawks were around. Just about dusk when I could barely see, I saw the first one take a swooping downward leap. I guess the next one went too but it was too dark. And for about two hours we heard the most horrendous crys of the two owlets. Like a baby wailing only worse. Did not sound anything like what I thought a baby screech owl would sound like. The next day, no parents at the house.