Comments on: Taking Shelter

By: lisaLassie

lisaLassie — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 19:39:15 +0000

Hooray!!! A screech owl in Box 2.

By: lisaLassie

lisaLassie — Sun, 21 Oct 2012 23:32:20 +0000

Thank you very much for your reply. Now I will just check in every day until owls move in: then I will watch the owls as much as I can each day!!!

By: Bill Powers

Bill Powers — Sat, 20 Oct 2012 12:02:16 +0000

Well, Kate is going to make a liar out of me. This morning at 7:05 AM the gray phase screech owl flew into owl box #2 to roost and it was 46 deg F at that time.

By: Bill Powers

Bill Powers — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 18:43:18 +0000

Hi lisaLassie,

Thanks for your comments and the interest in watching the owl boxes. The owl boxes are placed in an area with a lot of natural perching branches. We should have an external pan-tilt-zoom camera up and operational in the coming weeks, which will be placed in the middle of the 5 owl boxes. This will allow us to follow the owls around outside of the boxes and give the viewers the opportunity to see the location the boxes are installed. We can add the necessary artificial perches if you think it would help.

By: lisaLassie

lisaLassie — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 17:39:57 +0000

Thank you very much for setting up these boxes! It is a great help to the owls and of course a wonderful treat for us.

I have one question. Is there any plan to add more perches near the box as “branching” sites for the young owls (I am optimistic there will be young owls!) to use? Before the owls can actually fledge, they practice flying from “branch” to “branch” and back and forth to and from the box. I know that in artificial boxes for barn owls they have proven to be very attractive to the owls.

Thanks again for the boxes and for this blog.

By: Peggy Hookey

Peggy Hookey — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 15:20:04 +0000

What a wonderful effort to catch sight of a wonderful bird. I watched Owl Box which was set up in Northern CA last (?) year and lost hours just watching four and then three young owls sleep! It was a great site and the owner was also set up with cameras at night which showed the parents flinging mice(?) up into the box for the youngsters to eat. I was mezmerized day after day. So here is someone else with five owl boxes. More power to him and I will be tuning in.