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This clip was shot during my last visit with the great horned owlets. I love how its facial expression changes as it realized something is coming up!
"Bubo Virginianus"
Great Horned Owlet Branching. I was lucky enough to watch this little guy grow from a tiny Owlet to handsome little teenager! Mom was not far, watching from the next tree over!
Taken in North New Jersey
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This owlet dropped down from a tree and crashed in some branches near us while we were looking for one of the adults. It climbed up onto this stump and sat for a few minutes. I tried to line it up between these aspens.
After awhile it flapped off onto the ground and then kind of flapped and walked on the forest floor for awhile. We stayed to make sure it was OK. It made it onto a leaning aspen trunk. The next morning it was back with 2 of its siblings safe high up in another tree.
The two owlets have become teenagers, and mama has kicked them out of the nest to hunt on their own. Needless to say, they are not happy about it. They screech to each other almost nonstop, day and night. They are traveling around in a pair until they cna learn how to actually score some food.
Great Horned Owlets at Fort C.F. Smith Park in Arlington, VA. I've been out to see these owlets twice now, having much better light this a.m. I saw a parent do a flyover and waited 90 minutes this morning for a feeding that never materialized. Eventually the owlets laid down and went to sleep.
Bored owlets keep busy by napping and nibbling in between meal delivery. I love the expressions of this young great horned in this series of four images. “Oh OK, I’ll try it again!”
Not the best photo, but I'm posting to show how hard it is to sometimes fine owlets high up in the tree.
on Rough-leaved Goldenrod (Solidago patula)
Order Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moths)
No Taxon (Moths)
Superfamily Noctuoidea
Family Noctuidae (Owlet Moths)
Subfamily Cuculliinae
Genus Cucullia (Hooded Owlets)
Species convexipennis (Brown Hooded Owlet - Hodges#10202)
Lodi Township, Mi
Another photo of one of the two Barred Owlets that several of us were privileged to see near Edmonton on 4 June 2013. They were roughly three weeks old and would not normally be perched on a branch like this. Licenced Raptor Bander, Richard Chamberland, had invited myself and two friends from Calgary, plus a few others to visit two nesting boxes that he had built and placed on someone's private land. One had a family of six tiny Northern Saw-whet Owlets and the other held two much larger Barred Owlets. A really neat experience for all of us!
It's supposed to be the hottest day we've had this year, today, getting up to 32C/33C (and will feel like 39C). If it reaches 33C, it will tie the record for the hottest 2 July. It will be far too hot in my place, so I will have to go for a drive this afterrnoon - love to be in an air-conditioned car : ) This heat will help dry out all the floodwater damage in most parts of Alberta - unfortunately, there is a risk of rain showers in the forecast for a few days, including a risk of thunderstorms this afternoon. It's going to be a hot, hot day for all those doing strenuous work clearing all the flood debris.
Argh!!! Just checked the forecast and apparently we are under a Severe Thunderstorn Watch. Potential for large hail and damaging winds. Will still have to go for a drive, though, as the heat in my place is making me feel nauseous. Hope the hail stones and I don't cross paths : ) Checked for road conditions just after I typed this - most roads in Kananaskis Country are currently closed with bridges washed out, so I won't be going far. Of course, things like this are not top priority (and shouldn't be), so it looks like Kananaskis isn't going to be possible this summer.
It's 35C (feels like 42C) in Calgary this afternoon!! I don't know what you call the higher number - in winter we call the "feel" windchill. I went out for something like five hours this afternoon, driving west of the city past Bragg Creek. You can only drive on Elbow Falls Trail (Highway 66) as far as the turn-off for Maclean Creek, which is one place I was going anyway. Found a few things to photograph along the various backroads, too. Back home, feeling like I'm sitting in an oven!!! Air-conditioning would feel SOOOO good!! Ha, I can't tell what the temperature is in my computer room - it has gone off the end of my desk thermometer ( i.e. above 32C).
Wow, just read that the Calgary Zoo's preliminary estimate for damage to land and buildings is $50 million. On top of that, they estimate that they will lose a million dollars in revenue with the Zoo being closed till end of July and even then, only part of it will be open at first.
Australian Owlet-Nightjar (Aegotheles cristatus) at Crusoe Reservoir, Kangaroo Flat. A bad photo but it's a 'lifer' for me :)
A Barred Jungle Owlet clicked in the backyard. Tried clicking from inside but was not satisfied with the results because of the poor light due to the dense foliage and so went out hoping not to disturb the bird. Set the camera to 3M to get the full 18X zoom which meant minimal cropping. Was lucky to get a few reasonably good shots before the owl decided it had enough of me.
The Jungle Owlet is found all over the country from the Himalayas to the South of the country. This owl lacks ear-tufts and its diet consists of insects, rodents, frogs, small birds and lizards. At just 20 cms. they are pretty small in size.
The Spotted Owlet (Athene brama) is a small owl which breeds in tropical Asia from India to Southeast Asia. A common resident of open habitats including farmland and human habitation, it has adapted to living in cities. They roost in small groups in the hollows of trees or in cavities in rocks or buildings. It nests in a hole in a tree or building, laying 3-5 eggs. The species is absent from Sri Lanka, although the birds are found across the Palk Straits, just 30 kilometres away at Rameshwaram. Nests near human habitations may show higher breeding success due to increased availability of rodents for feeding young.[3] The species shows a lot of variation including clinal variation in size and forms a superspecies with the very similar Little Owl.