#owlswithjobs

Glad you like it!

I have been onto some real gold lately, there’s been so many new names in the comments. I love to see it!

They can only make him so much smaller! 😬

I wholeheartedly agree! 🥰

Shhhhh … Don’t let them know that we know!

Bigger doesn’t mean better! 😉

Wild turkey tail feather

Barn Owl wing feather

Red-tailed Hawk tail feather

It does feel like that sone days though! 😬

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I’m glad to help in any way I can.

I’ve enjoyed growing along with the community. I came here as someone with a normal interest in owls, and through keeping you all and myself entertained, now I volunteer with wildlife and get to hold and care for owls and all sorts of other animals.

Between learning with you all here and what I get to do in person, coming to Lemmy has been a very positive influence on my life. If I can get you all to see some positivity and delight in our natural world and maybe have a few of you volunteer or donate to your local rescue, I think it makes this world a tiny bit better when it needs it the most.

I’m grateful to you guys, and hope to keep you entertained and inspired for a long time to come.

These guys are sneaky, they sound much more like a regular bird than an owl. YouTube clip

Very nice! I see I’ve watched a few of their videos.

I gave updates the one spring on a Great Horned family that took over an eagle’s nest and they had two owlets. There were a few dramatic eagle raids where momma owl got knocked clean out of the nest, but she was ok and both babies made it to adulthood. Sadly, it looked like one got some poisoned food shortly after it left on its own, but I believe the other made it until it was fully independent.

Owls are opportunists and will generally eat whatever they can get those grabby feet on. They will also extend hunting hours, often during winter, if they aren’t finding enough food at night.

I scrolled the creator’s feed, and while they have some recent owl shots, none are what this one is, a Great Horned Owl. I’m thinking this was an older photo of his that he made the infographic with. This is the time of year they nest though, so I will have a bunch of owl baby photos soon. There are usually nest cams you can find online as well, so you can see owlets hatch and what crazy things dad brings them home to eat. Snakes and fish are particularly exciting to me.

I post a few posts a day about owl facts and owls from all over the world every day. I will also be returning to my own work with wildlife in March, so I get stories from there and other rehab hospitals as well. I’m in the eastern US, the photographer from the image is in Wisconsin, and while a lot of what I share is from the US since I know how to find that stuff the easiest, I try to find things from all over. There are around 250 species of owl, so I have a lot to choose from.

I try to get everyone’s questions answered, so if you comment, I will almost always see it, and I’ll do my best to answer any questions you have, it doesn’t have to be related to the post, just ask and I’ll either reply to you if it’s something small, or if it’s more complicated, I can do a new post on it.

Their territories cover miles, so if you’re in sight, you’re too close. They do seem to often choose unrealistic spots to get privacy, but since they can’t build their own nests, they set up shop where they can.

They try to hide evidence of where the nest is (poop, eggs shell bits, etc) to keep predators from sniffing it out too. So even if you don’t see it, they don’t know you’re not looking for it.

Owls will gladly snack on squirrels, but baby squirrel season is also starting around now, chipmunks look to have a later start.

I wonder if a properly incubated egg is just like laying in one of those salt water flotation tanks… 🤔

I did that once and it was pretty ok.

Tea Party was just a new spin on what conservatives were trying to do to the country since the first World War when the Wall Street elite tried to do a fascist coup in the US. Thankfully they asked the wrong man to participate, and it was stopped.

Modern Democrats are not a liberal party. See the weak support for the new mayor of New York, whose policies aren’t really that radical but are treated as such. They begrudgingly accept things like a need for nationalized healthcare and workers unions, but they no longer go out of their way to push for those things.

Status quo like we had under Biden is the endgame of the Democrats. MAGA is endgame for the Republicans. Neither major party wants a true radical movement, and all other parties are essentially locked out of our political system.

She at least gets to stretch to go on pantry runs and bathroom breaks! Pappa needs to kick up the hunting though.