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After several years, one of the owl nest boxes near the house finally attracted occupants that weren’t squirrels or wasps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A pair of Northern Saw-whets raised four chicks; they fledged in early June. All four were banded at the end of May.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The adult seen at the box could be identified due to the aberrant feather growth next to the right eye. This owl was caught during Fall 2019 as a returning visitor; she was first banded here in 2014.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Photo from Oct 2019
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After several years, one of the owl nest boxes near the house finally attracted occupants that weren’t squirrels or wasps. A pair of Northern Saw-whets raised four chicks; they fledged in early June. All four were banded at the end of May. The adult seen at the box could be identified due to the aberrant […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[3,8,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-results","category-nest-box","category-photos"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p90R5U-9l","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":742,"url":"https:\/\/owls.taiga.com\/?p=742","url_meta":{"origin":579,"position":0},"title":"First foreign recapture for station","date":"September 17, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"After 15 years, we finally caught our first owl that was banded somewhere else. 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