Went tracking with some friends today and saw a lot of cool stuff. Really nice vole tracks, a rattlesnake, Red-tailed Hawk tracks, and a ton of owl pellets with perfect vole and pocket gopher skulls inside. But the coolest thing that we found was a barn owl wing laying out in the grass. Later we found a hollow tree and looked up inside to find the other wing and tail which we were able to pull down with a stick and examine. I can’t think of what would have killed this barn owl and why half of it would be up in a hollow tree, and the other half out in the grass. Very strange. If anyone has ideas, I’d love to hear them.
Red-tailed Hawk tracks
Pocket Gopher skull and jaw bones
Barn Owl pellet
Barn Owl wing up in the tree
Barn Owl wing
beautiful feathers
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