 Ward
did a little better last night with three food deliveries, but the owlets
finished up the last of it by 7am. After a good night, there should be
enough food stored on the floor to last through the day, but Ward has not
achieved this goal so far this year. He was therefore forced to continue
hunting in daylight and was back at 10am with the small snake that he is
seen delivering here. That was his last daylight delivery as the crows
could be heard harassing him in the distance. I had not previously seen
owlets eat snake before they were one week old, but June was able to rip
it up into small enough pieces to allow them to polish it off in about
twenty minutes. This was enough to keep them reasonably quiet for most of
the day, but they were more than ready when he made his next delivery at
9pm. He has made two more deliveries since then. June had a scare at 11pm
when another nocturnal creature could be heard creeping toward the nest in
the darkness. When she realized that it was coming toward the nest, she
distracted it by flying to a nearby tree and snapping her beak. It worked
again and the creature could be heard walking away from the nest as June
returned to brooding the owlets. |