Ollie
Ollie and Olivia, grooming each other
I love these Barred Owls. This is their home, and they share it with me.
Posted on 07/03/2024 2:24:02 PM PDT by DallasBiff
Ollie
Ollie and Olivia, grooming each other
I love these Barred Owls. This is their home, and they share it with me.
Very cool, thank you for sharing🦉🦉🦉
This is not ecology. This is all about gettin paid! Every one of these useless eaters will be getting Federal paychecks for killing off owls.
We have very cute small burrowing owls here. I always say hello to them when I walk their way. These owl’s eyes are very mysterious and all knowing. Killing any owls is a sin and would never enter my minds.
;^)
Thanks. I had just gotten my DSLR at Christmas a few months before this. Totally had beginner’s luck. We are lucky to catch a glimpse of Ollie by himself now, much less the two of them together. We hear them call back and forth all the time, but seeing them? Once in a while, and it’s usually VERY brief. I still can’t get over that I got these shots through the window. It was late Spring for both of these, just a couple of weeks apart. This is just backyard photography without actually being in the backyard.
great - let’s get rid of a bats and rodent predator. What could go wrong?
So sweet. I’ve got a pair of cardinals who live near my back patio who are truly charming in their pair behavior.
Recently she was sitting on a branch and suddenly he landed next to her, then he hopped over her and landed on the other side of her and put a bit of food in her mouth (which apparently is a pair bonding behavior), and then he flew off and she followed him.
Then the other day he was with their fledglings as they were first trying to fly. Apparently the female lays two clutches of eggs, and the male takes over the first clutch when they get a little older and she starts the second clutch.
He is always boldly on the scene with his red plumage while she is demurely blended into the surroundings with her toned down coloration except for her characteristic red beak.
You have written that so beautifully. It was poetic! I love your description of the Cardinals’ behavior.
We are currently getting to watch two Carolina wrens build a nest in a tulip poplar right off our deck, with a view from our kitchen window. It has been so fun to watch both the male and female bring the nesting materials to their chosen spot, behind a lot of English ivy that has grown up the tree. I guess pretty soon we will get to see them incubating and then tending to nestlings. Fingers crossed anyway. If I’m lucky I may be able to catch a few shots of the babies as they fledge, roughly a month from now.
Well thank you and I will say that these cardinals make it easy to sound poetic because their natural behavior is poetic. Please keep us posted on the wrens!
Over in England they do not like the gray squirrel. They want the red squirrel but it is being driven out of it’s area by the gray. I am guessing the owls are fighting over territory and the spotted owl is losing or we are being lied to about this. We need to build more Kmart signs for them to nest in.
The Left and the Owls
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/1418705/the-left-and-the-owls/
No owl is gonna think that a tree is not good enough if it is not 100+ years old.
We need the barred owl.
Tootsie Pops - “How Many Licks?” (Commercial, 1982)🦉
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZtbCOpx8Sk
They simply hate humans. If they could use occasional Bigfoot sightings to stop logging, they would.
Yes the data shows that they are liars. Promoting an agenda.
Figures never lie, but Liars Figure.
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