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Owls
Barred Owls are very common in SE Minnesota and we hear them frequently in our backyard, at the Trempealeau National Wildlife Refuge, and at Forestville State Park. Their call is described as "Who Cooks for You, Who cooks for you all." The below image was spotted by Neva and taken at the Trempealeau National Wildlife Refuge.
A Snowy Owl in the Sax-Zim Bog (12/2021). See more on the Sax-Zim Bog page.
Owl Pellet Biology Lesson
Mallory and Thea (4 years old!) had a blast digging into Grandpa's Owl Pellet Biology Lesson.
Grandpa told Thea that she was a Biologist studying Owls and she wanted to know what Owls ate. Of course she couldn't do that by watching the Owls at night, so she figured if she dissected an Owl Pellet she might find out what they were eating.
An Owl Pellet is a fairly big gray/brown ball of undigestable parts of the animals an owl eats. The "treasures" are buried in all the hair that binds the balls together.
Both girls got VERY excited when the found an entire skull of a rodent.
Grandpa just had to take them down to the photo lab and take some macro images of their findings!
Both of the final images above are focus stacks of 25 images using Helicon Remote and stacked in Helicon Focus. Transferred to Lightroom for the final touches.
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