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Last year a pair of barn owls moved in at my work, I named them Lilet and Lyzel. I see them off and on, mostly in the barn, and they leave pellets all over the place. A couple days ago I went and picked up all the assorted rodent corpses Lyzel left around to impress Lilet. He must be a stud, because I picked up 23 of those suckers, about half of which had the head and torso missing. But more recently I’ve noticed a pile beginning to form under their box, and it has started to spill onto the ground. Suddenly the floor under their box has a treasure trove of tiny bones!! Partial and full skulls, teensy vertebrae, so many jaws, and teeth of various sizes, both molars and the crazy long incisors. One time a tiny rib bone blew away in the wind as I tried to pick it up. Sometimes I even get whole intact tiny pelvises. I have to sift through a lot dirt, straw and broken pellets to find all the bones, but it’s a ton of fun.

Does anyone know if the amount of stuff piling up outside their box means they have owlets? I so rarely see them and I wouldn’t see the babies anyway, but I wonder if excessive movement inside the box is what’s causing everything to spill out. The pile is a new development, the first 2 pictures are from last year since I haven’t gotten any good photos recently.

The Duskull was from my first ever fight with Sierra since the team change. I just wish that the shiny stayed red, but oh well lol