Beemaster's International Beekeeping Forum
ALMOST BEEKEEPING - RELATED TOPICS => FARMING & COUNTRY LIFE => Topic started by: Cockatoo on March 19, 2009, 01:17:29 pm
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:-D
We've had them for the past 12 years or so now.
(http://img12.imageshack.us/img12/4778/owlinbox.th.jpg) (http://img12.imageshack.us/my.php?image=owlinbox.jpg)
The chicks look like this.
:-D
(http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/7453/babyowl3.th.jpg) (http://img155.imageshack.us/my.php?image=babyowl3.jpg)
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Aw, sweet! Are they screech owls?
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Yes, they're Eastern Screech Owls.
They're so used to us that the hen will fly to the back deck and watch us in the house sometimes. :-D
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cool, two years ago i built a screech owl house after seing one in our backyard and they only thing that moved in it were squirels.
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I like that, do you have the dimensions on the house you built? I would like to build a couple for myself...
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Here' s the site I send folks to for plans. (http://www.dnr.state.md.us/wildlife/wascreechowlplan.html)
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This is what shows up in those boxes down here
(http://img440.imageshack.us/img440/7506/cimg2830.th.jpg) (http://img440.imageshack.us/my.php?image=cimg2830.jpg)
(http://img440.imageshack.us/img440/7239/cimg2831.th.jpg) (http://img440.imageshack.us/my.php?image=cimg2831.jpg)
(http://img440.imageshack.us/img440/4416/cimg2832.th.jpg) (http://img440.imageshack.us/my.php?image=cimg2832.jpg)
...JP