Monday, 5-5-08
A broken tripod and a large “Owl Tour” made owl watching difficult this evening. Here are some shots from early in the evening.
Riverside Eye Candy
The young ones are big enough to spend some time jumping up now. Bring some binoculars and enjoy watching them.
I got a note and a photograph from a fellow hawk watcher, Sam Fisher, who took a photograph of three eyasses about 45 minutes after I left this evening. So it looks like we do have three kids after all!
Riverside Duo or Treo
I may have counted the eyasses incorrectly at Riverside. Both Saturday and Sunday, I only saw two eyasses on the nest. I went back to my photographs from Thursday, and it might be possible that I mistook a wing for a head in a few of the photographs. Until I see three heads for sure, I think it would be best if I revised my count to two, with a possible third.
In any case, the warm weather and sunlight encouraged the nestlings to be very active on Sunday.
Highbridge Eyasses
The two Highbridge youngsters were alert and active Sunday afternoon. They’re at that “toddler” stage where they use their wings to crawl around and flop down a lot.
Sunday, 5-4-08
The owls were in the two tree by the path tonight. They ended up going to the trees near the streetlights were they first roosted when they fledged. This evening the fledglings seemed to be hunting moths, rather than being feed by their parents. It was dark, so this is only a guess however.
