Who-Who Can't Read?

[sneaky_pete]

Re: Who-Who Can\'t Read?

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( I definitely got the impression I was interfering with his fishing. /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif I didn't even know they ate fish. /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif Maybe Sneaky Pete can tell me if he ever found fish bones in their castings.)</font>

hmmm... couldn't say - there's a dearth of fish (and of any water for them to live in) anywhere close to Midland, so the high-school kids couldn't have found any fish bones even if owls were predisposed to eat fish. Oddly enough, that didn't stop the locals from buying boats though. There was a large marine shop that sold a lot of boats (and trailers) during the oil boom of the late 70's and early 80's. I couldn't fathom hauling a boat many hours one way, every weekend you wanted to use it but I guess a lot of people did.

Just to set the record straight, I've never personally dissected any owl casts, I just knew of the local school's project to do so. Until I dropped out, I went to high school in Golden and Wheat Ridge, Colorado, more than 30 years ago.

 

[wroughtn_harv]

Re: Who-Who Can\'t Read?

Some of the really really old guys will remember the old Riverside Raceway. The one with nine turns and the Goodyear tower.

In the early seventies I had to do some moves and changes to the telephone cable in that tower. Between the two floors was a crawl space. In that crawl space was a most interesting story.

On the ground in the morning would be rodent parts from the owls success the night before.

But up in that crawl space was some of those remains where the rodents had retrieved the body parts for their own consumption. So there in the middle of the rats nests was evidence of them going down to feed on what the owl didn't digest.

The circle of life alive and well in death you might say.

 

[TMAC]

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Great pictures Jim. Thanks for sharing what a beautiful Owl. That must have been a great experience to have happen up close and personel like that plus you had the digital with you to capture it! /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif I'd somehow get those pics enlarged and frame a few of them in the house somewhere for sure. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

I'd say you're probably right with being a Barred Owl. Fits the ID really well with the vertical brown bars on it chest. You guys compare though and see what you all think.... here's a link Owl ID's

 

[txdon]

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Nice Pic! The owl reads very well. He read the sign under the no trespassing sign, which translates: safe place with plenty of live food! /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif