Now we would jump for joy if we heard those sounds! Barney is here somewhere!

No food line has formed tonight so far. I don't think anybody is hungry.

I watched this morning as the 3 stooges tried to eat a giant rat. This rat was so big that I thought it was a rabbit! They were so funny trying to unzip it and they'd pass it around from one to the other. One of them actually stood on top of the rat at one point trying to get a bite.

The second cam has been moved so we should be able to see mom and dad bringing food and have a view of the babies when they venture out onto the limb.

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Some of you heard my footsteps poking around under the cavity tonight. I moved the cam to the limb but was having trouble getting the IR spotlight on it to work. So cam’s pointed there but not “lit up” like it should be. A power supply problem that I’ll fix tomorrow – involves too much of a fix that I can do tonight, but I tried. At least I know what the problem is and can fix. But am tired an gonna go to bed. Will be fixed for tomorrow. Pete
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Here's a look at the cavity and limb from the outside and where the cams are placed.

These guys are really goofy this morning. The one in front has been doing this for about an hour at least. I can empathize as I sometimes feel the same way. Maybe if you turn your head completely upside down the world will make more sense.

With the oldest two owlets out flying around, the baby stands in the door and hisses and calls for them. She/he can see them out on the limb and in the trees around the nest. So far, both older owlets have returned to the nest at daylight and all 3 spend the day together in the tree.

While I was watching last night and unexpected visitor landed briefly on the owl's limb. I barely caught the tail end of the visit with my snippy but you can still see that it was the Red Shouldered Hawk in the pic below.

This might be my favorite Emmie video ever!


All 3 owlets are in their tree tonight again. Every day we get to see all three together from here on out is truly a GIFT. Won't be long until they figure out they can sleep outside.

Last night we were treated to some closeup zooms of these beautiful owlets. It was amazing to see them outside their nest and in full color and we were so lucky that the cam operator was there to take advantage of this opportunity.

Just when we thought that was the highlight of the night little #3 baby finally stepped out onto the limb and was gone on it's first flight! Those other two older sibs won't be leaving it behind anymore because it will be following right behind them.

When the sun goes down at Starr Ranch, it's Barn Owl pArTy TiMe now. All three were flying around all over the place last night have lots of fun. All three returned to their nest before daylight once again.

Emmie just posted this video from 6-11-13. I was hoping somebody videoed this. Thanks Emmie!

featherNH posted this video from this afternoon.

And featherNH also posted this one from 2:30 PT today titled "Starr Ranch - empty house?"

featherNH video of an aborted landing or a flat out miss! LOL

All 3 owlets returned to their branch office around midnight last night. It was great to see all of them together and looking great! I always think it's so interesting to see how owlets, BO and GHO, really seem to love playing with each other and just hanging out with each other.

Last night around 9:00 p.m. something really had the owlets on guard and giving their warning calls. In the video you can see the owlet is startled by what sounds like a cat. The chatters say their are cougars and bobcat's around there. You can hear at least one other owl giving that familiar "jingle" warning and beak snapping, too. Here's a link to barn owl sounds. http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Barn_Owl/sounds

Two owlets are in the tree asleep tonight and
feather made a new video from this afternoon.