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Screech Owl Chronicles – The Owlets Fledge

By |2020-05-13T11:18:56-06:00May 13th, 2020|Nature|

We woke to an empty owl box on Friday morning. Two owlets took off on Wednesday evening, the first at 8:40 p.m., the second at 9:03, leaving the other two owlets to follow, but they lingered in the box, shuffling the sawdust, hopping up to the entrance, squawking for their parents to bring food. On Thursday morning only one owlet remained in the box, his sibling having left in the middle of the night.

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Screech Owl Chronicles – The Owlets at Two Weeks

By |2020-04-26T17:28:37-06:00April 26th, 2020|Nature|

The owlets are now two weeks old. I watch them on the owl cam, waddling around the box, shuffling through the sawdust, looking up at their mother who is sitting in the box entrance. She is waiting to leave, anxious to leave. As the owlets grow larger each day and spring days get warmer, the box is becoming crowded and uncomfortable.

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Screech Owl Chronicles – The Owlets at One Week

By |2020-04-26T17:29:23-06:00April 26th, 2020|Nature|

The owlets are all almost one week old now. The first egg hatched on Thursday, April 9, and the last on April 11, bringing the final count to four owlets. At one week old, the owlets are no longer amorphous blobs; they have wings which they stretch out as they awkwardly push out from under their mother and wobble around, all fuzzy round heads and tiny beaks and black eyes.

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The Last Day of Winter

By |2020-04-26T15:27:30-06:00March 20th, 2020|Nature|

The last day of winter doesn’t feel like winter. Growing up in New Jersey, today might have brought snow. Back then we wished for signs of spring. Here in Texas, especially decades later, the signs of spring have been with us for weeks. Redbuds in bloom, primroses, bluebonnets, Indian Paintbrush all over the hillsides along 290, Blake Manor Road and the pastures at the barn.

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Screech Owl Chronicles – March 16, 2020 – The First Egg!

By |2020-04-26T17:27:17-06:00March 17th, 2020|Nature|

The owl huddles over her clutch this morning. She has laid three eggs so far and there may be a fourth egg hiding under her now. The first egg appeared on Tuesday morning, March 10, and each subsequent egg has been laid a day apart; so Thursday, Saturday and today, if she has laid another.

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