Holler Hooters,
are the very best neighbors!
This little guy,
flies with his friend Katie Pnewski,
at Avian Behavior International in Southern California.
We have nesting barn owls in our owl boxes at The Holler.
Check out this frumpy little chick on his first day out of his nest, napping, and making a new friend!
Cheers to you from The Happy Holler Hooters~
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Those barn owls are very beautiful and cute! The napping photo was so adorable!
Thanks so much Aisyah! I am happy you enjoyed them & cheers to you დ
It’s my pleasure 😊
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Soooo wonderful! Love these photos!
So happy you do & thank you! დ
I’ve probably mentioned it before. there were a lot of owls in France. The destruction of hedges and abuse in pesticides have decimated them… Sad.
So terribly sad. Owls are so important to healthy ecology დ
They are. All started in the 60’s. French fields were small, and scattered, the result of centuries of inheritance, transmission. One farmer could have ten different fields scattered on a few miles. All fields had hedges, rows of trees. where raptors nested. Hedgehogs, what have you. Then the government launched a swap programme. “I’ll give you my ten acre field over there in exchange for your which is adjacent to mine”. Cut the trees and hedges to make way for tractors… Gone the trees, the edges, wing blowing, floods, gone the nests…
Bureaucracy.
Progress they call it 🙁
Yeees. Not all is bad in progress, of course. In that particular case, the intentions were good: redistribute the land in a more efficient way. Made moving around easier… But, no one thought about the consequences. those were the 60’s. No-one thought about habitat, eco-system balance… We have learnt. A bit… (And then we screw up elsewhere. LOL)
Be good Cindy
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