August 16, 2008
PM, T=76, cooling after aft. Rains
As usual, the owls are roosting in the tree outside the shop window.
8:10P, F drops down from her invisible roost perch to the dead branch/defecation perch; followed about 3-4 min later by the M; M flew E, the F same.
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2019 Season: From mid-November through mid-December, one owl (female?) used the nest box as a day roost, before shifting to the palm tree where the male has been roosting. During December and January we were interested to see the owls actively defending the vicinity of the nest box by "buzzing" any squirrel which approached this section of the nest tree. Several times, the owls managed to actually knock a squirrel off its branch (squirrels bounced up unhurt from the 30-foot fall!). |
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