Call for pictures and video of branching owlets

On behalf of the Barn Owl Alliance, I would appreciate any information you have on sites with owl box designs or discussions of branching behavior, and most of all, pictures or video of branching owlets - better yet, video or pictures we can USE for our material as we go forth to try to change the way owl boxes are done in the United States, and educate those involved with owl boxes.

IF YOU HAVE BRANCHING OWLETS IN YOUR VICINITY, PLEASE VIDEOTAPE THEM IN THE ACT OF BRANCHING, LEARNING TO FLY, or PHOTOGRAPH THEM! An occasional flash is probably not going to hurt anything, by the way. If you're willing to let us use your footage, we will be eternally grateful, as will the possible millions of owlets who live because of the education and changes these videos can help bring about! We will credit each video and picture with your name, of course.

We are working on our nonprofit status, and once those papers are filed, we can grant you a tax deductible receipt for your "gift in kind". I'm working on this w/ my lawyer currently. In fact, I'm living in his house. (My close friend is his wife, Cait, and I spend part of each year living on their 3rd floor at 9,000 ft (the Rockies, not the 3rd floor by itself) in the Eastern Rockies, up among the trees. What a difference from the noise and light pollution of Huntington Beach!).

We would want you to be willing to license us to use the video and photos, of course.

If you can't do that, and few people do have active branching owlets near them, could you let us know about any links to sites that do have this kind of material on them? We will add those links to the "links" section of our Barn Owl Alliance website, once it's up and running.

THANK YOU! The baby owls who end up having a branching system upon which to branch and learn to fly, rather than plummeting to the ground and dying there, will be grateful, without knowing it, of course. WE will be grateful on their behalf!

Thank you all for caring,
Stacey

PS: I think even pictures of other species of owl branching can be included, since almost all species of owls do the same exact thing as Barn Owls - they move out onto branches and THEN learn to fly. In fact, Great Horned and Screech Owls and Saw Whet Owls, among others, move out onto branches when they're still balls of fluff.