Not exactly contretemps - or maybe it was?
About 2300 last night I was sitting in the barn, I mean watching my flock, and there was a bang and clatter from the far end, near the owl box (see previous posts). I could see a young owl standing on the ledge around the box. He stared back, bobbed about a bit, then turned around and hopped back into the box.
A minute later I could heard something moving around on the floor of the barn. It was another young barn owl, and it went behind a massive stack of wood.
I went to try and find it, to no avail. This morning I tried again (having read up on rescuing baby barn owls) and spent over an hour looking for it amongst all the junk/really useful stuff in the barn. Not a sign
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I hope he made it back to his parents, as apparently they only feed their young at the nest site. Or maybe it was just time for him to move on?