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Alice, Rusty, Iris and the International Owl Center Blog: Patience Goes to Wisconsin
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Monday, December 16, 2013. Patience Goes to Wisconsin. I was getting very worried about Patience since her signal hadn't moved off the bluff behind the alpaca farm south of La Crescent for over a week. It was a weak signal to boot. Given that we found Patrick's tail feathers with his transmitter on the ground, that's what I was expecting to find for Patience too. It was snowing pretty good. We kept walking toward the far trees, and the signal was still faint.fainter than up on the road. I fin...So back t...
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Alice, Rusty, Iris and the International Owl Center Blog: August 2013
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Monday, August 19, 2013. Rusty takes a Sand Bath. Good question. Perhaps it can help control ectoparasites like lice and flat flies. Or maybe it just feels good. No idea. Links to this post. I have absolutely no idea. I'm certain this sound has never been recorded or described before, so let's watch to see if it's only one owlet, all the owlets, if it's always given when they start flying, or any other details of what's going on. Thanks rose for catching this so many times! Links to this post. One of the...
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Alice, Rusty, Iris and the International Owl Center Blog: March 2013
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Saturday, March 30, 2013. Good Views of All Three Chicks, 9:45am, 3-30-13. Links to this post. Rusty Attempts To Feed Again, This Time With Some Success, Approx. 7:00 am, 3-30-13. Links to this post. Rusty Attempts To Fed His Chicks, 7:00 pm, 3-29-13. Links to this post. Friday, March 29, 2013. Owlet #1 - Up Close - approx. noon 3-29-13. Links to this post. Home Alone 5:50 pm 3-28-13. Links to this post. Thursday, March 28, 2013. Feeding All Three, Approx. Noon 3-28-13. Links to this post. One-of-a-kind ...
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Alice, Rusty, Iris and the International Owl Center Blog: June 2013
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Saturday, June 15, 2013. I've been collecting and studying Great Horned Owl vocalizations since 2004, so there's not a whole lot I haven't heard (or heard of) before. But there's always more to discover! A few nights ago all the owls were spooked by something. All but Iris flew into the breeding pen and were alertly looking around. Iris was looking at something outside, and every now and then another owl joined her to look at the thing outside. I followed the owlet around with the PTZ cam, and eventually...
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Alice, Rusty, Iris and the International Owl Center Blog: February 2014
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Sunday, February 02, 2014. We have a new blog! From now (2014) on, all blog posts will be in the International Owl Center's blog at www.InternationalOwlCenter.org/blog. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Like Alice on Facebook. Great Horned Owl Breeding Project Donors and Volunteers. Catherine Manley Gaylord Foundation. Raptor Education Group, Inc. Scott Carlson and Katharine Miller. Bob Kierlin and Mary Burrichter. Judy and Jim Sloan Foundation. Select Trusses and Lumber. Ron and Rae Evenson.
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Alice, Rusty, Iris and the International Owl Center Blog: November 2013
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Wednesday, November 27, 2013. Although Rusty and Iris were successfully hunting and killing rats in the flight pen when the owlets were still there, mice seem to have complete and total impunity in the breeding pen. Here's a field mouse running around all over the nest again. Are these mice pets or what? Links to this post. Tuesday, November 19, 2013. Rusty and Iris' Happy Reunion. Rusty didn't fly much once he got up onto a perch, but he did hoot some, as did Iris. Links to this post. This one is Rhett ...
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Alice, Rusty, Iris and the International Owl Center Blog: October 2012
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Monday, October 08, 2012. The Cam and the Door. Alice has been using her pet door to get between her room and her outdoor patio since June. But we left the plastic flap off so she'd get used to going in and out. It's finally too cold and we put the plastic flap on. Would Alice push her way through? But would she figure out how to come back in again? The super exciting news is that we installed a new pan/tilt/zoom (PTZ) cam in the breeding cage. Woo-hoo! We opened the big eight foot door to make it easy t...
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Alice, Rusty, Iris and the International Owl Center Blog: December 2012
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Monday, December 10, 2012. A Visitor from Norway. Roar Solheim was the keynote speaker at the 2011 International Festival of Owls. In Houston, MN. He came back to Houston in September of 2012 because he just couldn't get enough. In Kristiansand, Norway, where he is the senior curator. You've never seen a man so excited to find a road killed woodchuck. Mind you, Roar didn't sleep much. As I could spare the time here and there, I watch him prepare specimens. He had a variety of different techniques tha...
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Alice, Rusty, Iris and the International Owl Center Blog: October 2013
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Friday, October 11, 2013. Rusty has been favoring his bad eye lately, holding it shut most of the time, shaking his head sometimes, and even sometimes rubbing his bad eye on his "shoulder." Also, sometime his poop has yellow urates. It was high time the boy got a checkup, and we decided to bring Iris also. Capturing them was easy. We have a big fish landing net with felt sown in in place of the netting. When they fly I simply extend the net up so they fly right into it. Easy squeasy. He seemed to have so...
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