Re: [cobirds] Re: owl s=carrying owlets

Hi Jill,

Are you sure the thing that appeared to be a young owl was not a prey
item that the owl was in the process of eating, and it just simply
carried it off as it flew.

Scott Rashid
Estes Park

On 4/21/2018 12:13 PM, David Gulbenkian wrote:
> On Friday, April 20, 2018 at 8:00:00 PM UTC-6, ji...@booksandcats.net wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I posted this yesterday about an owl,  but as OWL-Douglas county.
>> However, it s really a questions about owl behavior.
>>
>> Jill Boice
>>
>>   I saw something very unusual Wednesday  night.   My daughter, Run,
>> volunteers at a ranch near Castlerock.  She does evening chores.  At
>> dusk, we were near the chicken coop and saw a large Great Horned Owl
>> sitting in a spindly pine, very close by.  Under the adult was what
>> looked like one or two owlets.  I was wondering how that owlet got over
>> to the little tree that clearly did not have a nest in it.  Suddenly the
>> adult (she, presumably) spooked and rose up, with her large owlet
>> grasped in her talons and carried it to a tree maybe 30 feet away.  It
>> deposited the youngster in there somewhere.  A short time later she flew
>> further away, to the top of another tree and began hooting.
>>
>> I have never seen a bird carry its young like that.  Sort of like a mama
>> cat might do.  I don't think I have even read about owls doing this.
>> Anybody else familiar with this?
>>
>> Sadly, of course, I did not have my camera on hand.
>>
>> Interested in others comments
>>
>> Jill
> I was at a Birds of Prey Foundation presentation on the 19th, where I
> learned that the violent winds not too long ago blew huge numbers of
> baby owls and hawks out of the nest or blew nests down.
>


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