Thursday, 3-2-06
The mystery of the missing male continues.
Wednesday, 3-1-06
The third night of only the female. Was the male badly injured? Did we get the sexes wrong and are they nesting? A mystery.
Tuesday, 2-28-06
Again only the female is spotted flying out. She hunts about 100 feet north along a stream bed this evening.
Monday, 2-27-06
On Monday, only the female flew out. Concern mounted about the male’s health.
Sunday, 2-26-06
On Sunday it felt bitterly cold, (25F with 25MPH winds). It took awhile for an owl to appear in the hole. The first sighting was around 5:45 p.m. As on Saturday, there had a jockeying for position with the two owls exchanging spots before the fly out.
We also got to see the two of them together twice, a rare event. Quite a change from the earlier behavior of 30 minutes of one followed by 2 minutes of the second! Tonight, we also had the first observation of the owl who usually files out second, flying out first.