Do owls carry their chicks?
By Birding-Aus, on May 9th, 2015
I have just read a story in The English Garden magazine in which an owlet, described as “ä little ball of fluffy feathers” – and thus presumably flightless – appears to have been plucked from a box beside an open window by its parents and returned to the nest hollow. I have tried to find out if this is possible but Uncle Google has been uncooperative. Do members of this group have any knowledge of owls (Australian or British) carrying their descendant chicks back to the nest? I have recorded a recently fledged Tawny Frogmouth chick that had fallen on to the ground rejoining its family , but that is a bit different to an unfledged chick being extracted from a box. Martin Butterfield http://franmart.blogspot.com.au/
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I observed a nestling Little Owl in the Chilterns (south central England) about 30 years ago that had fallen out of a nest about 15 ft up in a hedgerow tree. Over the course of about half an hour it climbed back up a nearly vertical tree to the nest hole, by climbing with its feet, flapping with its wings for lift, with frequent stops. It was supervised by its two parents during this time, who attacked anyone who came near. John Leonard — John Leonard Canberra Australia http://www.jleonard.net I want to be with the 9,999 other things.
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