The owl babies have moved out!

Mom watching her babies in the tree branches after enticing them out of the nest.



It's our second year of having owls raise a family in the back yard. Last year they took over a squirrel house so this year I installed a special owl house. Made no difference, they evicted the squirrel and moved back into the house overlooking our deck. I'll be taking the Owl house down and replacing it with a squirrel house. We're an equal oppurtunity housing yard.

Since March we've watched Mom & Dad feeding babies shortly after sunset. Night before last they enticed babies out of the house by bringing food almost to the house and waiting for hungry babies to climb out and come to them. Last night we watched as Mom & Dad enticed them from branch to branch, each move a little longer than the last until they were flying 6-10 feet at a time. They moved from the Oak tree they were born in to a Pecan tree in our neighbor's yard and kept going until we couldn't see them any more.

It's so good to be grandparents to human children, furry squirrel children and feathered children.

It's good work if you can get it . . .