We had two more successful re-nestings over the past few days.The first three photos are of a Great
We had two more successful re-nestings over the past few days.The first three photos are of a Great Horned Owl nestling that was found on the ground at Quail Hollow Country Club on Friday. It was kept at CRC overnight before being placed in a substitute nest the next day. The nest site was not accessible, so this nest was placed about 25 feet up in the same tree. A parent was in the tree on the other side of the golf cart path. Later in the day, the bird was on the ground again. This is typical for this age - they are active! After placing it back up again, it jumped out of the nest but was still up in the tree. It was still near this nest in the tree this morning. The second three photos are of the nestling that we have had at CRC for 43 days (patient #21343). We added him to the Great Horned Owl family of our first re-nesting at Providence Country Club. The original owlet was re-nested twice already, but it has stayed up in the tree since the 2nd time re-nested. The second owl was placed in the same substitute nest that was used for the first owl. This one stayed in the basket about 5 seconds and hopped out and onto a branch (again, they are active!). It stayed there for an hour or so and then started to move closer to the other owl. They stayed about 5 ft apart. Both parents were nearby, as well. Now those parents have two babies instead of one. The more the merrier, right? You can see both babies in the last photo.What have we learned from this? First, “branchers” truly are branchers. No nest will contain their energy. And more importantly, renesting season would not exist this year without Deborah and Patrick Roy. They are the reason that it has been successful and they deserve all of the praise and thanks. -- source link