We have been watching a nest of owls that we discovered in early spring. For a while it was just the mother owl, and on occasion, the dad was there. Then we were told the owlets hatched, so we checked it everyday waiting until we could see baby owls. The proximity of the nest was out of range for my camera, so I couldn't take a good picture of it.
Soon we saw the owlets sitting up in the nest. It was funny to watch their little heads bob around and look at us as we drove by, gawking at us as much as we were gawking at them.
Yesterday, we discovered one of them had left the nest and was perched on top of this trailer that was in the parking lot. It was there in the morning, and then again in the afternoon, in the exact same spot.
Then today, it was gone. The nest was empty. I'm kind of sad that the whole excitement of it is over. Maybe we'll get lucky and they will return next year. But they will be missed.
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