Felicity ShouldersGotta come up with an affirmation-chant for when I start a new non-fiction book about how this book may prove to be super-interesting but I’m the one who chose to read it and I shouldn’t try to regurgitate it down my friends’ gullets like they’re starving baby birds. 😬
Ellen@faerye What are you reading? I don't mind an info dump. 😄
@starry1086 Just started “What an Owl Knows” by Jennifer Ackerman. For context, most owls lay eggs on separate days and therefore hatchlings range in age and size. My favorite gun fact is that older barn owl nestlings give their food bits to their younger sibs an average of twice a night. Intersibling altruism! In hungry hungry nestlings?!
Mad B@faerye
You can put info on the mastodon! Who would scorn owl knowledge?!
@starry1086
I was able to get some barred owl nestlings to a rescue earlier this year
@Oaktag Eeeeee! So magical to get to help an owl! And SO LITTLE!!! 🥹
I stopped for a barred owl in the road recently at a place where I often see coyotes. I hope it didn’t come back to sit in the road again later (most people do NOT go 25 past this park.)
@Oaktag I feel a little bad about being charmed by barred owls as they are…an actual invasive species? (Like, the few northern spotted owls that remain have *stopped making territorial calls* so the barred owls won’t sweep in and attack them physically.) But somehow an individual owl is just an animal and a wonder to me, anyway!
(According to my reading, your California Spotted Owls are doing much better against ‘em!) #OwlFacts