Waiting for Dinner

Here is one of the owlets in the window waiting for dark and food deliveries to start. We watched from the porch. The owlet spent a lot of time looking at us, but once we stopped moving, it looked all around, and eventually rested its head on the box. It likes to watch planes go overhead. Big noisy birds. It will also watch any bird that flies by at dusk.

Eventually, the food deliveries started, and I got lucky to catch this photo just after delivery of a bloodied gecko. We've seen geckos swallowed many times in the box, but never from the outside. This happened when it was too dark to see details, but I caught it with the camera on a long exposure.

In the box this evening, there was lots of activity. The owlets are practicing flying inside the box. They fly up to the ceiling, to the hole, to the perch. Obviously there isn't much room, but they are stretching their wings a lot and using them for these hop-flights inside the box. Fledging should happen very soon.