I believe today’s Screech-Owl score in Lithia Park is: Adult 1, Owlets 3. Here is how it looked today:
One owlet in the hollow maple, the nest tree.
Two owlets in a nearby conifer they’ve been using as a roost tree irregularly for over a week.
Then this owl is in the roost box that is most frequently used year-round and judging from the glare and the full-sized tufts I take this to be one of the adult owls.
So the score seems to be: three owlets roosting near where they were born, one adult using a roost box about 100 yards away. Not necessarily one of the parents of the owlets. But four different Screech-Owls in same vicinity in Lithia Park. There was one photographer in the afternoon when I was about. These owls have quite a following.
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