tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2389421550592866269.post3489241305469592507..comments2024-03-21T00:31:29.186-07:00Comments on Stacey O'Brien : Wesley the Owl: Answers to questions in last group of comments:Stacey O'Brienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03821047137548565006noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2389421550592866269.post-51148513775096823812010-04-18T00:17:48.175-07:002010-04-18T00:17:48.175-07:00Charlotte asked me to remove a comment of hers tha...Charlotte asked me to remove a comment of hers that included information that she thought had come from a professor, saying that scientists had observed barn owls being "unfaithful". It turned out to be false information and she wanted it taken down immediatly, so I did. Unfortunately, there's no way to take out just part of a comment, so I had to trash the whole thing. So I copied and pasted it so you can see the comment without the incorrect info in it:<br /><br />-------------------------------------<br />Charlotte's corrected comment:<br />Charlotte said...<br />One of the characteristics of the barn owl that you shared with us today that I find heartwarming is how pairs bond with one another for life. You described how one will devotedly care and hunt for its partner if the other is injured. In your book you share that if one mate dies, the bond is so strong that the living mate might turn his head away from life and “stare fixedly in a deep depression until he dies”. How profound those emotions are. I am moved beyond words to realize that this depth of feeling is even possible in non human creatures. In fact, as you have helped teach us, emotions such as this are an integral part of “the way of the owl”.<br /><br />< ><br /><br />Thanks again, Stacey, for your involvement in the blog, for all your time in answering our many questions and for the love that pours through every word that you share about these magical and majestic creatures.supenca<br /><br />April 5, 2010 7:53 PMStacey O'Brienhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03821047137548565006noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2389421550592866269.post-22242519358342467022010-04-09T13:19:59.676-07:002010-04-09T13:19:59.676-07:00I need to apologize for my 4/5 5:06 posting, Stace...I need to apologize for my 4/5 5:06 posting, Stacey. I quoted Dr Richard Raid as having told me something relative to pair bonding that I remembered and posted SO incorrectly! I called him that day to verify what I remembered and, am SO embarassed to say, din't wait for his call before posting it. Uggh. I just got off the phone with him. Please forgive me. He never said the researchers observed and verified males keeping and HUNTING for two nests. He clarified that during the time that UF did some telemetry studies with their owls, one of the student assistants responsible for monitoring the owl's movements told him of one male who paid a visit once to another nest box while he was hunting and providing food for his own. (perhaps he was stopping to say hi to his SISTER for nature's sake!) I feel like I've given those loyal, monogomous, hard working males a bad rap with that post. Can posts be deleted? Darn, I'm sorry about that one.Charlottehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00832374626156409741noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2389421550592866269.post-28898185382408497582010-04-06T11:32:36.302-07:002010-04-06T11:32:36.302-07:00Great blog, Stacey! I really appreciate it!Great blog, Stacey! I really appreciate it!Ronihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15576546922546213025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2389421550592866269.post-76172684939171026722010-04-05T20:13:47.064-07:002010-04-05T20:13:47.064-07:00couple of observations tonight:
-not surprisingly...couple of observations tonight:<br /><br />-not surprisingly, humans are weird. Someone in the chatroom was getting irate about 'Owls don't bond!!!'. When challenged, he/she said 'that takes emotions! they don't have emotions!'<br /><br />Kind of amazing that people still have strong opinions like this in this day and age, when a lot of scientists like yourself have dispelled this crazy myth.<br /><br />-WOW. One of those babies swallowed a mouse whole, which seemed to take a long time (hard to tell with the IR camera's perspective, but the mouse looked like it was 3/4ths the size of the owlet). Molly watched carefully with her wing over the baby, almost propping him up. I thought of what you were saying today about the lessons she teaches them. There was some kind of interesting 'food fight' that happened right before that - one of the smaller ones had the mouse for a while, and she was watching that owlet very carefully and seemed to be keeping the others away. <br /><br />-Stellargal/Owlcoholic (depending on which chatroom you're in)gimpyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03539837528253350613noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2389421550592866269.post-47985637452034301272010-04-05T17:06:42.515-07:002010-04-05T17:06:42.515-07:00Thank you so much for all of your insights and inf...Thank you so much for all of your insights and information regarding what I (we) are all seeing in The Owl Box. Now I can watch with new eyes and ears.<br /><br />Yes, gimpy is correct, that is what I saw too, regarding the rabbits. <br /><br />I throughly enjoyed reading your blog here this afternoon. Thank you again!!suzie2https://www.blogger.com/profile/07909698610879518033noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2389421550592866269.post-18326063932746652322010-04-05T16:18:05.159-07:002010-04-05T16:18:05.159-07:00Thank you again for your insight. I'm so glad ...Thank you again for your insight. I'm so glad to learn about these awsome creatures,from you, as I watch them live. I was really in awe of Molly's "warrior Cry". I couldnt think of anything else to call it. She amazed me. Something curios I noticed was a "tap tap tap" noise that started upon her exit. It continued for a while. Im lost. Did you get to see the video? Im wondering if you heard it and have any thoughts on that sound. Thank you again. I look forward to your blog every day.kasmhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13706053377018892501noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2389421550592866269.post-33962247403659364132010-04-05T15:10:38.094-07:002010-04-05T15:10:38.094-07:00McGee's been bringing rabbits since I started ...McGee's been bringing rabbits since I started watching 3 weeks ago, before the first egg hatched. Mostly small bunnies, but once in a while a large adolescent. Here she is eating a rabbit whole, before any eggs hatched: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuEeN_OutM4 I don't think the species of the meal was a factor in the "regifting" behavior.Katzenwoofers Pet Rescuehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15048431863567399229noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2389421550592866269.post-73907551192357393382010-04-05T08:12:43.485-07:002010-04-05T08:12:43.485-07:00Yes! I've now put Stacey's blog up as one ...Yes! I've now put Stacey's blog up as one of the bookmarks I check over coffee, too! Thanks for the updated information, it's very, very nice to read so much more detail than we get in the owlbox chatroom.<br /><br />I've been joking to my friends about the 'yummy morsel' sound. Lately when I get something exciting to eat or drink I mentally think "YUMMY MORSEL!!!" .<br /><br />The Stanford screamers stories are hilarious. I'm sure they weren't to you at the time.gimpyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03539837528253350613noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2389421550592866269.post-31318465014591611562010-04-05T04:51:49.627-07:002010-04-05T04:51:49.627-07:00Stacey, you can't know how much we appreciate ...Stacey, you can't know how much we appreciate your time and willingness to share this wonderful information with us. My first stop after the coffee pot has been the "owl box". The next is now your blog! I hope you save everything you write as I imagine your next book will write itself through this process! <br /><br />Regarding the great horned owl and its relationship to the barn owl..(Please excuse the not-Molly-specific question.) Generally speaking, if there is enough food to hunt in a shared area would the great horned tend to leave the barn owl alone? My son and I recently built and placed a barn owl nest box in a friend's spacious back yard. The day we finished putting it up we heard and saw a magnificent great horned roosting within a short distance from our box. Our friends had been hearing the great horned for a few weeks. Do you think the two could coexist peacefully? If not, would the barn owl pair have that bad neighbor thing figured out before choosing to move in to the high rise?Charlottehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00832374626156409741noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2389421550592866269.post-36977026934994360872010-04-04T22:45:08.473-07:002010-04-04T22:45:08.473-07:00wow, what a great writeup, thank you for all of th...wow, what a great writeup, thank you for all of that!!!!! it's so fascinating to hear about the animals in 'real-time' as things happen.<br /><br />They had gotten rabbit before the fight- I think the video of her swallowing a small rabbit WHOLE was from before the rejected rabbit.<br /><br />I'm still trying to figure out what noise is what. Is the 'motorcycle that won't start' noise her 'yummy morsel' sound, or is that more of a bonding-with-the-babies sound?gimpyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03539837528253350613noreply@blogger.com