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Jill Boice
Apr 20, 2018, 10:00:00 PM4/20/18
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Hi all,
I posted this yesterday about an owl, but as OWL-Douglas county.
However, it s really a questions about owl behavior.
Jill Boice
I saw something very unusual Wednesday night. My daughter, Run,
volunteers at a ranch near Castlerock. She does evening chores. At
dusk, we were near the chicken coop and saw a large Great Horned Owl
sitting in a spindly pine, very close by. Under the adult was what
looked like one or two owlets. I was wondering how that owlet got over
to the little tree that clearly did not have a nest in it. Suddenly the
adult (she, presumably) spooked and rose up, with her large owlet
grasped in her talons and carried it to a tree maybe 30 feet away. It
deposited the youngster in there somewhere. A short time later she flew
further away, to the top of another tree and began hooting.
I have never seen a bird carry its young like that. Sort of like a mama
cat might do. I don't think I have even read about owls doing this.
Anybody else familiar with this?
Sadly, of course, I did not have my camera on hand.
Interested in others comments
Jill
I posted this yesterday about an owl, but as OWL-Douglas county.
However, it s really a questions about owl behavior.
Jill Boice
I saw something very unusual Wednesday night. My daughter, Run,
volunteers at a ranch near Castlerock. She does evening chores. At
dusk, we were near the chicken coop and saw a large Great Horned Owl
sitting in a spindly pine, very close by. Under the adult was what
looked like one or two owlets. I was wondering how that owlet got over
to the little tree that clearly did not have a nest in it. Suddenly the
adult (she, presumably) spooked and rose up, with her large owlet
grasped in her talons and carried it to a tree maybe 30 feet away. It
deposited the youngster in there somewhere. A short time later she flew
further away, to the top of another tree and began hooting.
I have never seen a bird carry its young like that. Sort of like a mama
cat might do. I don't think I have even read about owls doing this.
Anybody else familiar with this?
Sadly, of course, I did not have my camera on hand.
Interested in others comments
Jill
David Gulbenkian
Apr 21, 2018, 3:27:39 PM4/21/18
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learned that the violent winds not too long ago blew huge numbers of
baby owls and hawks out of the nest or blew nests down.
Scott
Apr 21, 2018, 5:47:35 PM4/21/18
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Hi Jill,
Are you sure the thing that appeared to be a young owl was not a prey
item that the owl was in the process of eating, and it just simply
carried it off as it flew.
Scott Rashid
Estes Park
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Are you sure the thing that appeared to be a young owl was not a prey
item that the owl was in the process of eating, and it just simply
carried it off as it flew.
Scott Rashid
Estes Park
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Chip Clouse
Apr 22, 2018, 8:41:04 AM4/22/18
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My thoughts exactly.
Chip Clouse
Golden
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