17 February 2025
It was overcast with misty rain when Dana Nesiti visited Schenley Park on Saturday 15 February to seize photographs of the nice horned owl’s nest. As you possibly can see, the owlet is rising quick and beginning to get facial disc feathers. (You too can see raindrops on the again of Dana’s digicam, beneath.)
For comparability, right here’s what the owlet appeared like 4 days earlier on 11 February — all beak.
Hoping for have a look at the owl household, Charity Kheshgi and I visited Schenley yesterday whereas it was sunny. Sadly the wind was so chilly that the owlet hid beneath his mom’s stomach feathers whereas her ear tufts flapped within the wind.
We did, nevertheless, discover the daddy owl roosting in a tree on the other hillside — within the solar and out of the wind.
As we speak it’s so chilly that the owlet might be hiding. Subsequent weekend’s above freezing temperatures might be time to verify on his progress.
