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Great Horned Owl Baby Owletsby `kkart

Photography / Animals, Plants & Nature / Birds

Great Horned Owl Baby Owlets

Amazing what you can find hidden in holes in trees! Baby Great Horned Owl Owlets! (Bubo virginianus) I figured something was up when I saw the adults together in a tree, knowing adult Owl's never fly far away from their young.

_{From [link] "Great Horned owl eggs are the size of a chicken egg. Their mom sits on them and in four weeks the baby starts to hatch. After the first one hatches another one will hatch in three or four days. This keeps on going until all the eggs are hatched.

When the owlet is born they are covered with white feathers that are called down. When they are forty five days old they start to grow new feathers.

When the baby owlets are born, they are helpless. They are the size of a chick, but they cannot do anything.A baby chick can walk around and get its food, but an owlet just stays in the nest and just cries for its parents. It cannot even fly.

The parents go out every night and look for food for the babies. The babies cry to their parents to come with the food. When the owlets are five weeks old they can start going out of the nest. At ten weeks old they try to fly. The parents bring them food and sit on a nearby branch. The babies try to fly to the food, but often they fall. Soon they are able to fly by themselves.

When the Great Horned Owls are half a year old they stay nearby the nest. They have very sharp talons so they could hop from branch to branch. However, they are still wobbly a little, but they live on their own. "}

--John

^{See more on my website jdebordphoto.com all work copyrighted 2009 John De Bord. Feel free to link to this shot on Facebook, Twitter, etc. I welcome the extra exposure!}

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!lcfrlilith Dec 18, 2010

har har har

~Imthenats Apr 27, 2010 Hobbyist Photographer

Nice find. But yeah >> "...looks like a very disappointed old man"

*loopylass14uk May 9, 2010

Haha that's exactly what I thought!

`Xerces Apr 22, 2010 Professional Artisan Crafter

aww- how cute is that! wonderful capture

`kkart Apr 27, 2010 Professional Photographer

lol ya I got some pretty good shots off

*EBENEWOOD Apr 15, 2010

Love his "patibulaire" look... Can't stand those rognrongnrongnn photographers!....Nice shot!....

`kkart Apr 27, 2010 Professional Photographer

lol thanks!

~1Spoon-of-Turquoise Apr 14, 2010

Your camera is like a brush and you the painter. It almost seem impossible to capture those images and colors unless you paint the. Oh well you breathe awesomeness, so I suppose that's how you do it

`kkart Apr 15, 2010 Professional Photographer

well that is quite a compliment, thanks!

~1Spoon-of-Turquoise Apr 15, 2010

You're welcome

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