Hello World!

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We went out to check on the owls yesterday morning, and one of at least two, but I’m guessing there are three, owlets popped his head up and said “Hello World!” Thus we start another season of “Watching the Owlets Grow.”

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Sunset View

Owl Update

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The three owlets from two doors down were playing on the ditch bank and in the bosque last night, while mama owl watched from a perch along the clearwater ditch.

Two owlets sparring over a perch.

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They noticed the paparazzo,

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Can you find all three owlets?

The three owlets and Mama owl.

Owlet Update

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I think I get get out of this hole.

At first we thought that there was only one owlet in the cottonwood in the neighbor’s yard just south of us. Turns out there are three owlets again this year. One of the oldest owlets was trying to get out of the nest last night.

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@#&$! Can’t quite do it.
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Dang!
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You all didn’t see that. OK?
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Stretching its wings.
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The runt popped its head up when the other owl took a break from its attempt to get out of the nest.
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The third owl getting a wing in edgewise.
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There is something interesting in the branches above.
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Only one owl popped its head up this morning.

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Moving on north to Virginia. You can refresh your memory about who Virginia is at https://wp.me/p1yQyy-4dG. Another resident owler said she had seen a second owlet with Virginia, but we have not seen the second owlet. Virginia is older than the three owlets down south, and she has been getting out of the nest for a couple of weeks (she was out of the nest the next day after the photos I did of her on the 14th). This morning she and Mama owl were sitting on a branch outside the nest. Virginia is developing horns.

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Virginia is adorable. She looks small next to Mama owl, but when she’s by herself she looks big.

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A view from the back side of the tree.

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