Mom and Owlet

just spotted this hop back into the tree

Edmonton river valley

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Barred Owl and Owlet

6/24/2018 - about 2 weeks out of the nest.

barred owls

waiting patiently outside the burrow for one of the adults to return with a meal.

Great Horned Owlet in tree next to nest mom was watching from a distance

A newly fledged barred owlet sits on a fallen alder. Its bill is open as it was panting on a very humid day. The year 2020 has not been a total write-off, as 4 of 7 of my barred owl nest boxes were success stories. The other two owlets of this brood fledged days later.

Barred owlet and the mom

Owlet

Brazos Bend State Park, TX

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This Great Horned Owl youngster was seen in the vicinity of north Walnut Creek, along with its sibling and parents. The pine tree was the family's home base. They have since relocated.

Location on map is approximate within 1 mile.

Portrait of a barred owlet on a beautiful low perch. This is the first time I could isolate the owl from the background as usually they are always high up in the trees. On this occasion, this little one flew down and placed herself right in-front of me.

My first time seeing a Eastern Screech owlet

Burrowing Owl (Athene cunicularia) ~ Cape Coral, Florida

A hungry young burrowing owl impatiently waits for Mom to get back to the burrow with some breakfast.

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Another rainy day...

Same - Tanzania

Pearl-spotted owlet (Glaucidium perlatum), a small bird of prey found in sub-Saharan Africa. They are part of the group 'pigmy owls', one of the smallest owls in Africa, and commonly referred to as 'owlets' due to this small size.

Gomoti Camp, Santawani Concession, Botswana.

Conservation status: Least Concern

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I thought it would be interesting to see the growth of the Barred Owlet over the last month or so. The photo on the left was taken May 17th, the day this one fledged the nest. The centre photo was taken on May 22nd and the photo on the right was quite recent taken on June 21st. While the owlet size in the photos isn't an accurate comparison the photos do show feather detail and changes over that period.

Photos taken from a distance.

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Found sitting in front of an old barn.

After the rain at Brazos Bend State Park in SE Texas - 3/2021.

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Back to the midwest...just to document how the owlets grew. now 30 days old, the two siblings are the poster owls for brotherly (sisterly?) love. Mom is off resting in a tree out of sight, and the two are cycling between napping, yawning, and looking around in random order.

Little Owlet blending into the tree.

The Little Owl is not a native species, having been introduced to Britain in the 1870s, but it appears to have occupied a vacant niche without having any detrimental impact on other species. Numbers and breeding distribution increased gradually, reaching an estimated breeding population of between 4,000 and 8,500 pairs at the time of Project Barn Owl. The current distribution extends across England, north to the Scottish borders and west into Wales, where it is largely confined to Anglesey and to eastern parts of the country. There have been very few records from Ireland.

Pairs remain on their breeding territories throughout the year, with territorial calling evident during autumn – when young birds are searching for breeding territories – and again during spring. Small cavities are favoured for breeding, these often located within hedgerow trees or the walls of old agricultural buildings. Favoured nesting chambers tend to be located some distance from the cavity entrance and with little daylight reaching them. The male will often perch close to the nest cavity while his mate is incubating her clutch of eggs.

Little Owls often hunt from a perch, taking small mammals and large invertebrates, including earthworms, cockchafers and other beetles. There is evidence to suggest that breeding success is linked to the availability of small mammals, though some pairs evidently do well on other prey; a pair breeding on the island of Skomer, for example, took a large number of Storm Petrels (Courtesy BTO).

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Barred Owlet

Great Horned Owl encounters do not always result in great images but they remain nevertheless great encounters.

Not that active yet, this great horned owlet was waiting for the adults delivering some food, Point Reyes, CA

Soon to be fledgling

Toronto, ON

There were three owlets, not two as per the report. This one, being the smallest of the three, stayed separate than the bigger two. The male was actively hunting and the female was keeping a close eye nearby. It was fun to observe the family dynamics/interactions of this aggressive owl species.

However cute they are, I just wish they stayed at the far east. Barred Owls in the west are bad omen for the Spotted Owls.

Newly fledged Little Owl climbing around his tree but not yet ready to fly.

Local park in Edmonton, Alberta

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And here are the troublesome owlets :)

That day they stayed together, so mom was quite happy...

Great Horned Owl / Puchacz Wirginijski (Bubo virginianus).