A predator or lack of food might have prompted an owl’s departure from its longtime Santa Clara home.
I used to see barn owls around my neighborhood a lot. Most nights I would hear or see one flying high overhead northwards and other nights I would see one flying around lower. But I have not seen or heard them for nearly a year. Where could they have gone? Do individual barn owls have their own territories that change over time?It’s always awesome, I think, to have a barn owl for a neighbor, but there are a couple of things that might make them move to a different neighborhood.
Scientists believe barn owls eat at least one rat a day, so a mom and dad, plus a couple of kids, would need four a day. That comes to more than 1,000 in a year. One of their biggest enemies is the great horned owl, which loves nothing more than eating a few owlets from the nest. They also will attack the adults. If a barn owl senses a threat, it will move to a new, safer location.
Also, I finally saw our little night guest that I asked about some time ago, and identified it as a chickadee. He and a buddy hang out under the eaves on the other side of the house, where they apparently feel safe and protected. Do chickadees migrate?The chickadees we have in the Bay Area are chestnut-backed chickadees, and like their more northern cousins, the black-capped chickadees, they are not, strictly speaking, migratory.
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