Yes, Virginia, There IS a Third Owlet!

No photos, but we saw it emerge briefly on Thursday evening around 8 p.m. or so. It wa just a tiny little thing, seeming even smaller than the bad photo from the other day. Also, we figured out that the window of the box is about 8 inches high, in case anyone has been just dying to know so they could figure out about how big the owlets are. Seems as though last night's little guy didn't even come up to the halfway mark.

My Mother's Owl, 2010: A Third Owlet?

This quite terrible photo was taken this evening as the light was fading and I was very tired. I present it nonetheless because we believe this to be a third owlet! See how much shorter than the others it is. I think it would be even if it were standing up on its little legs; it had a smaller aspect overall. No owlets had been seen at all today until this one climbed up out of the depths of the box.

My Mother's Owl, 2010: Owlets!

Owls nested in my mother's owl nest box for the first time (that we know of or saw) last year; you can see one of them here. But this year, we have seen the owlets! I present to you Castor and Pollux. We hope she will forgive me for momentarily forgetting which is which, but you can tell them apart by their eyes. These photos are from last Thursday, 5.6.2010, the first day they were spotted.