Barn Owl Slide Show
This is a slide show, in high definition video format, of 36 of my still images of Barn Owls, set to music. My wife and I had an owl house installed on our rural property in Lakeside, California back in the spring of 2011. Within ten days, a pair barn owls moved in, laid eggs, and raised two young owls. In 2012 another pair of owls was hatched in the house, and this spring two more owls were born. We installed the house because we wanted a natural form of rodent control, without having to use poisons, which can kill wildlife indiscriminately. One of the great pleasure of having the owls here is that we get to watch the beautiful young birds learn to fly. Since they're new to flying, they tend to be a little clumsy at first and sometimes miss their landings with occasionally comic results. The pictures here are presented in chronological order.
The first year the owls were here I took no pictures of them, as I didn't want to disturb them. Since they only go out after the sun has set, it's impossible for me to get pictures of them without using flash. By reading about barn owls, we learned that they're pretty habituated to humans, and human activity, so last year I took a chance and took about five or six pictures. Since that didn't seem to disturb them, this year I took a lot of pictures, and most of the images in this slide show were taken this year.
I'm happy to say that the owls eat a lot of rodents, and one insect that I know of, and as a result we have not seen a gopher on our property in well over a year. Prior to the owls, we were overrun with gophers, who even killed some of our fruit trees. Gophers bad, owls good.
To see individual images of the owls, please check out my owl set. I have all of my owl pictures in my Barn Owl set which can be seen here. www.flickr.com/photos/9422878@N08/sets/72157630045851110/...
Other video slide shows that I've made are in my Video set. www.flickr.com/photos/9422878@N08/sets/72157623226860691/
Barn Owl Slide Show
This is a slide show, in high definition video format, of 36 of my still images of Barn Owls, set to music. My wife and I had an owl house installed on our rural property in Lakeside, California back in the spring of 2011. Within ten days, a pair barn owls moved in, laid eggs, and raised two young owls. In 2012 another pair of owls was hatched in the house, and this spring two more owls were born. We installed the house because we wanted a natural form of rodent control, without having to use poisons, which can kill wildlife indiscriminately. One of the great pleasure of having the owls here is that we get to watch the beautiful young birds learn to fly. Since they're new to flying, they tend to be a little clumsy at first and sometimes miss their landings with occasionally comic results. The pictures here are presented in chronological order.
The first year the owls were here I took no pictures of them, as I didn't want to disturb them. Since they only go out after the sun has set, it's impossible for me to get pictures of them without using flash. By reading about barn owls, we learned that they're pretty habituated to humans, and human activity, so last year I took a chance and took about five or six pictures. Since that didn't seem to disturb them, this year I took a lot of pictures, and most of the images in this slide show were taken this year.
I'm happy to say that the owls eat a lot of rodents, and one insect that I know of, and as a result we have not seen a gopher on our property in well over a year. Prior to the owls, we were overrun with gophers, who even killed some of our fruit trees. Gophers bad, owls good.
To see individual images of the owls, please check out my owl set. I have all of my owl pictures in my Barn Owl set which can be seen here. www.flickr.com/photos/9422878@N08/sets/72157630045851110/...
Other video slide shows that I've made are in my Video set. www.flickr.com/photos/9422878@N08/sets/72157623226860691/