Caught them both at home!

Proper posting later...

 7:09 Ei

Spotted eagle owl momma & poppa are on 2 eggs so far!

http://potplantowl.blogspot.com/

http://www.africam.com/wildlife/potted_plant_owl_webcam

you will need to disable ad blocking for the cam

I did, still doesn't work!  

They had a link to how to shut it off-should have written it down...

I think it had to be disabled on the main africam page:

http://www.africam.com/wildlife/index.php

In firefox, I went to tools-adblock plus-disable on africam.com

Then pot plant owl worked.

Spotted eagle owl momma & poppa are on 2 eggs so far!

http://potplantowl.blogspot.com/

http://www.africam.com/wildlife/potted_plant_owl_webcam

you will need to disable ad blocking for the cam

Maybe Orion will run into those 2 girls from Buffalo and have some 'singing' partners to travel the world with  

Pefas are not song birds.  

"Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best."

Henry Van Dyke

[hmmm...may have found a tag line...]

I was just checking Quest's maps from her hatch year. Not sure her specific hatch date-May 8-11, 2008-but August 1, 2008 she was in Cape Cod, Massachusetts.


Quest is one of these 5 heads! 

That's just about how old Orion is as of today.

He could well be on his way.

Is she waiting for DC to come in? He needs to bond with her more. I don't know, these 2 don't seem to be into each other.   She needs commitment and he just can't give it to her. 

They aren't beating on each other (not counting the feeding squabbles) and they seem to be hanging out together peacefully most of the time. I'm good with that

DotCa vanished into thin air once he learned to hunt successfully on his own it seemed to me.  And as Frank likes to remind me ... I flipped out and thought something had happened to him because he left so soon compared to his brothers. 

Then a few months later we had someone send us photos of a young DC north of Toronto in the trees.  Even then I worried cause I thought he looked thin    and here we are today watching him on cam!

I hate when they do that, though. You always wind up worrying even though you know it's not logical.

I don't think he's left yet, just exploring somewhere that no one is looking for him. He'll be back.

  Beauty on FCT, no Orion or DC yet. DC was apparently at BS this am.

Sigh! Had a feeling we were going to be seeing less of the little guy soon. He's been getting more independent every day.

Glowz the spider has been busy!

Harlequin cam is back! And Kendal is at home!

There are a lot of falcon purists that don't support the cross breeding that was done - they consider it a pollution of the original North American falcon genes (the Anatum)

I have to wonder if they would have been happier to have "pure" genetics in the only anatums left in the natural history museum along side the passenger pigeon.

As I understand it there were so few anatums left there would have been far too much close relative interbreeding to restore a healthy population.  I believe most captive bred birds were from a very few ancestors. And we can see that the anatum traits are still strong. Time will tell if it becomes more prevalent.

Now the cross breeding between peregrines & gyrfalcons is another issue altogether...

Hope you got to see Orion! Ei