2008 Official IJ Mascot Blog
Eastern Screech Owl
(Megascops asio)

Blogging the activities of our mascot via near infrared in box video, visual observations, and still photographs.

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Explanation and  Q&A of the Owl Box Setup

May 22, 2008 
This guy (or gal) pretty much sits in the same place all day to watch over the box.  

October 19, 2008 
We took the box down and clean it today.  There were obvious signs in the box that a clutch was laid and that owlets live in and left the box.  Stay tuned for next season.  

May 19, 2008 
There is still a great deal of activity in our owl box without the video camera.  There are certainly owlets in this box; there is just too much activity for there not to be.  We will keep our eyes peeled for owlets.  The box with the camera remains 'lonely'.  

Here are two pics.  As for the quality of the pics, they were taken with a Blackberry 8310 camera phone and a monocular as a "zoom" lens.

March 26, 2008 
Good news and bad news; but mostly good.  We have an owl, but it is not in the box with the camera.  We have two owl boxes at The IronJungle.  One close to the house with a wireless camera and the other a bit more remote without a camera.  So....  The good news is we have an owl that hops in and out of one of the box daily.  The bad news is we have no exciting inbox video, etc. in that box.

We will keep our eye on the inbox camera; it may be used later as a food cache or as a home for late nesters.  We will also keep an eye out for branchers and other owl like activity in the non camera box.

March 19, 2008 
The owl was seen looking out the hole before sunset.  The owl is still not visiting the box daily.

March 16, 2008 
8:05AM:  After a 10 day vacancy, the owl was back this morning.  We hear (and have seen) owls in the yard almost every night, but none seem to take to the box daily.

March 6, 2008 
6:55AM:  Nice surprise this morning.  Our owl is back in the box!!! [pic]

March 5, 2008 
Sorry, no additional sightings since February 26th.