Hello all, When checking the video camera today, Saturday, Jan. 3, 2009 at 10 am, I noted the owl is sleeping in the wood duck box visible from the street. Look through the pines at the southwest corner of the house to see the larger pole mounted box at the northwest corner of the house.
We will be home most of the day, so knock on our door and we can show you the owl on TV if it is not sunning itself at the hole when you stop by. Sunning seems to occur between 11 am and 1 pm. Yesterday the owl slept until 4:30 pm and then ate some of the remaining woodpecker bits left in the box. Long bones and feathers when down the hatch. Pickings must be getting slim as it spent a fair amount of time kicking the wood chips around looking for more. The microphone picked up Great Horned Owls calling in the distance at dusk and also a Saw-whet Owl call around 5:00 pm. The screech owl's head snapped up when the different owl calls where heard. The owl left the box at 5:30 pm. I have only heard Saw-whet calls here a couple of times before and am keen to see one for the yard list. George Skinner 15330 Lynn Terrace Minnetonka, MN 55345-5734 952-936-0811 ---- Join or Leave mou-net:http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives:http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
