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The owl is most active
during the egg-tending period in the early evenings. Here are some selected
movies.
Owl Leaves,
Hunts, Returns with Dead Rat, Drapes it Over Eggs (2/3/04)
Owl
with 5 eggs (1/26/04)
Owl
with 6 eggs (1/28/04)
Owl
with 7 eggs (2/9/04)
Owl
preening, looking up at camera (2/4/04)
Owl
goes out to hunt, revealing Owlet #1wriggling on 6 eggs (2/19/04)
Owl
goes out to hunt, revealing 3 owlets wriggling (2/23/04)
Owl
goes out to hunt, revealing 4 owlets wriggling (2/24/04)
Owl
leaves box, reveals mass of squirming young..4? (2/26/04)
Owl
during day, impressive stash of dead mice (2/29/04)
All
owls hatched, squirming around (2/29/04)
Maybe
only 4 chicks, getting larger (3/4/04)
Probably
5 chicks, getting fuzzy (3/8/04)
Mother
Owl Gone 15 minutes.."I have GOT to get out of the house"..(3/10/04)
Parent
Owl forced out of the nest box..stops in to deliver dead mice only (3/22/04)
Giant
Fuzzballs wth beaks, some emerging tail, wing feathers (3/26/04)
Four
or so, owls on pile
of muck (4/6/04)
Getting
some head feathers, less fuzz (4/15/04)
Some
have left? lens clouded with owl oils- stretching tall (4/18/04)
No.
There are still 5, getting ready to go! (4/23/04)
Nest
box empty for long stretches of time; two left (4/25/04)