4/10/25: More Rodents, Please!

More owl feedings. We are in the waiting period before the eggs hatch. The female sits on the eggs continuously except for short breaks. The male brings her mice and occasionally insects. Here are a couple clips of food deliveries. 

In the first one, you can get an idea of how long their legs are as she stands up to peer out the hole before he arrives with a kangaroo mouse

 In another clip, she is away when he pops in with a Jerusalem cricket (“potato bug”).

And a clip where she swallows most of a mouse that was leftovers. 

4/22/25: We Must Be Getting Close!

No owlet hatching yet, hopefully tonight to still meet my prediction.

In the meantime, here are two clips of mice deliveries: a kangaroo mouse and a field mouse from a few days earlier. 

The female has been spending all her time on the eggs and the last morning she has been fussing with them almost continuously and skipped her usual pre-dawn break. Maybe sensing the movement of the chicks inside?