Author Topic: Great Horned Owls - Colorado / Xcel Energy (Read 9110 times)

The Peregrine Chick · « **Reply #7 on:** February 12, 2010, 15:31 »

Snowflake? Snowflake? How the heck can the mice she eats take her seriously with a name like Snowflake!!

Alison · « **Reply #6 on:** February 11, 2010, 22:26 »

Snowflake laid her first egg yesterday:

bev. · « **Reply #5 on:** February 09, 2010, 15:24 »

She is ready to lay an egg ,we are sure
two of my latest slideshows.

Alison · « **Reply #4 on:** January 23, 2010, 19:39 »

Back at the nest again today:

Alison · « **Reply #3 on:** January 20, 2010, 19:18 »

I think this is Snowflake:

Alison · « **Reply #2 on:** January 18, 2010, 21:04 »

I'm not quite sure whether this is Snowflake or Dan:

Alison · « **Reply #1 on:** December 28, 2009, 21:21 »

This nest on a power plant was originally installed for peregrines, but was claimed by a pair of Great Horned Owls some years ago. The owls here are Snowflake and Dan. They have been visiting the nest from time to time, usually at night.

Earlier this year, they had eggs, but part way into incubation Snowflake abandoned her eggs. Crows had been harassing the pair, and this may possibly have been the reason. Two years earlier, they had also abandoned their eggs, but that year they laid a second clutch of two eggs, and raised two owlets. This year they did not reclutch.