Feb 21 2013
Screech-owl Roost … and Nest?
If you haven’t been watching PixController’s eastern screech-owl webcams you’ll want to start now.
Back in October when I first wrote about the webcams, eastern screech-owls were just starting their winter-roost season. The birds hadn’t chosen preferred boxes and a squirrel was time-sharing in one of them.
Since then two owls have sorted out who roosts where. They’re definitely aware of each other because they sometimes visit each others’ roosts or eat each others’ cached food.
This week they’ve been busy in Owl Boxes #2, #6 and #7. On Tuesday night the owl nicknamed “Allie” caught and cached a mourning dove in Owl Box #2. Last night she came back to eat it. The motion detection cameras keep track of the owls so you don’t have to stay up all night. Click here to see recent archives of owl activity.
Now that Winter is ending, things are about to get very interesting. Eastern screech-owls nest in March. Will they nest in one of the boxes?
Click here or on the image above to watch PixController’s Eastern Screech-owl Live Webcams. You can also follow PixController on Facebook where Bill Powers posts the day’s best photos from his many webcam installations.
(image from PixController.com)
p.s. The owl looks white because of the infrared light.
OWLS. I adore them. Thank you for the links to these amazing “Night Owls” (kind of like me)
Nice, I’m following them now. Did you see the Western Screech Owl photo from here in Albuquerque? Cute little gal was out getting some sun.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/steve_valasek/8454239843/
been watching a few month get some update in facebook new to this been watching lily bear clubs and eagle in florida owl in OKL I want to watch whats in here in pa now will the gray mate with a red phase,I watch the cam westmoreland I think 3 cam wildlife and 2 cam jewel and lily and the owls .where do I go for chat? and are they going to have cam live for falcon downtown pittsburgh thank you so much to learn of natures and see nature at its best I have the cam on all day and half the night waiting for something to come along deer racoon turkey birds and a black cat such a joy do we have moderators like other states? fixed income but if I help in any way will if I can thx again for what you do I love nature more than people lol