Colder weather and only one owl at fly out.  He came around after about 10 minutes and landed on the Raccoon tree, then a closer tree and then a big circle along the drive.   Then I lost him.

Both flew out tonight, one directly after another, male then female.  We heard one descending call from the Loch.  I had to leave to eat dinner, so it was a quick night of owl watching.

The female is now joining the male at fly out.  Both seem to be going deep into the Loch quickly after flyout.  I wonder if they have hunted all of the mice near the nest cavity!

I arrived to find a tree and a very large limb of an adjacent tree had fallen down near the Owls roost tree.  The trees had taken down the Y shaped tree, we had taken to calling the sex tree, since it was the site of many copulations.

Luckily, there was no sign of any injured animals or birds.  The tree that lost a large limb, is home to at least five raccoons.  We saw four of them leave other parts of the tree this evening.  Hopefully, we just missed seeing the others.

Fly out ended up being fairly standard, although we lost the owl at first, we were able rediscover him and track the owl for about ten minutes.

I wish there was something exciting to report, but it was the same as the last few days.  A standard fly out of one owl.

Same old, same old.  Nothing special this evening.

Last year there were fledglings by this time.  I hope they’ve learned to wait a little longer this year.