IBN – Guess Whoo…who’s coming to dinner?
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This is part of my Inspired by Nature series that will be placed in and around Port Townsend and Jefferson County. As with all things in nature, these caches can be quite delicate so please take caution when handling them and replacing them-they will be grateful. This might be a fun series for families.
This is a fairly simple cache to find if you are on the right side. Be on the look-out for mice – that being one of this guy’s favorite snacks! This cache does not contain a pen, please bring your own.
MOSQUITO ALERT: There can be lots of mosquitoes here during certain parts of the year. Come prepared.
About Me:
Most owls are nocturnal predators, with hooked bills and needle sharp talons (claws). They have wide wings, lightweight bodies, and feathers specially designed to allow them to silently swoop down on prey. Depending on the species, adult owls hoot, screech, or whistle.
More than a dozen species of owls live in Washington. The great horned owl (Bubo virginianus,) is the most widely distributed owl in both Washington and North America, occupying dense forests, open woodlands, clear cuts, deserts, and urban environments, including golf courses, cemeteries, and parks with adjacent woodlots.
Owls have keen hearing and keen vision in low light, both adaptations for hunting at night. Since their eyes don’t move in their sockets, they rotate their heads on their flexible necks.
Great horned owls use a sit and-wait approach, watching from a perch and swooping down on passing prey to seize it with their talons.
Great horned owl nests are located high up in trees—generally in the crotch of a branch next to the trunk. Where suitable nest trees don’t exist, owls will use rock ledges, power-line towers, haylofts, and nest boxes. Great horned owls make little if any effort to construct nests or even to repair suitable existing ones. Rather, they customarily usurp the previous year’s nest made by a red-tailed hawk, crow, magpie, great blue heron, or tree squirrel
The oldest banded great horned owl recovered in the wild was 13 years old. Captive birds can live almost 30 years.
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