BIG Owl on my Trail

[TheWaterbug]

6 Coyotes Howling on Camera, Thoroughbred Trail, 08/28/23



I finally caught them howling on camera! It's not any louder than any of my other howling videos, so those must have been fairly close.

What a racket!

 

[TheWaterbug]

Barn Owl (?) on Thoroughbred Trail 09/03/23



Looks like a Barn Owl to my uneducated eye. Certainly doesn't look like a GHO.

What do you think?

 

[Parley]

Could well be a Barn Owl. I thought maybe he caught a rodent, but I did not see anything in his talons when he flew away.

 

[TheWaterbug]

Ojai Raptor Center confirms that this is a Barn Owl. I haven't seen one in my yard in awhile. Now I just need him/her to move into the perfectly-good Barn Owl Box that's just off-camera to the right:

 

[TheWaterbug]

And now I know why my interior cam on the Owl Box has been offline for the last 6 days. A branch blew over a few weeks ago, and had been leaning on the Ethernet cable which tugged on the ABS baffle glued to the side of the box. It all finally failed at exactly 6:38:38 on 9/10/23:



Efforts at resurrection are here.

 

[TheWaterbug]

Owl With Prey? 09/19/23



When it turns its head it looks like it's got something in its mouth, and it looks to be squirming a bit. And then it eats it .

Could it be a mouse? And what species of owl is this?

 

[JudasFeast]

Looks like a mouse/mole/vole/similar to me. Can't offer help on owl species besides Googling. Nice capture though.

Owl With Prey? 09/19/23



When it turns its head it looks like it's got something in its mouth, and it looks to be squirming a bit. And then it eats it .

Could it be a mouse? And what species of owl is this?

 

[TheWaterbug]

Coyote With Chicken or Peafowl? 09/26/23



I'm not 100% what it is, but I think I can see a chicken foot. Actually it could be a peafowl, since it's so large. We have a lot of peafowl around here.

 

[TheWaterbug]

5 Coyotes on Thoroughbred Trail 10/12/23



I hadn't seen all 5 together in awhile.

 

[Parley]

Looks like the pack is still pretty much there. I figured the mortality rate would be higher.

 

[TheWaterbug]

I, for one, welcome our new insect overlords, and pray they'll be benevolent.

 

[TheWaterbug]

My coyote is broken:



S/he seems to be getting around ok:



but I don't know if that will translate into hunting successfully.

Does anyone know if coyotes will share food?

 

[Parley]

I doubt it, unless there are leftovers. Hopefully she can still hunt.

 

[TheWaterbug]

Apparently a limping coyote can sometimes make a full recovery!

Injured Coyote Update

The injured coyote I wrote about in my last posting is doing great even though he does not have full use of his foot yet! He’s walking, running, and kicking up his heels for the fun of it, ha…

coyoteyipps.com

 

[TheWaterbug]

Injured Coyote Still Courts and Plays, 11/16/23



The first time I scanned my footage I didn't even realize this was my injured coyote. He doesn't seem to be very impaired by his injury at all. A few minutes earlier he was boinging his way up the trail:



And apparently mid-November is time for this sort of thing. This was exactly a year and a day ago:

 

[TheWaterbug]

Apparently a limping coyote can sometimes make a full recovery!

Now limping less, and putting some weight on that leg when not running:

 

[Parley]

Yep, the coyote is improving. Like you said, putting some weight on the leg when not running.

 

[TheWaterbug]

4 Coyotes Playing on Thoroughbred Trail, 12/07/23



Some courtship, some playing, some more courtship.

I believe one of the two courting adults is the one that was limping a few weeks ago, and s/he seems to have recovered completely.

 

[TheWaterbug]

2 Coyotes On a Date, 12/17/23



Hey, let's meet at Painted Peacock Manor!!

 

[JDreaming]

The male Coyote was really in a hurry to get it down to business.