Quickie little follow-up on Mr/Mrs. Owl, below


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Posted by Granite Head (65.213.192.3) on 10:06:55 07/26/12

Last night I happened upon a show on TV called

I'm pretty sure most of the part of it I saw, at least, was shot in Yellowstone and/or surrounds, but since I tuned in very near the end, I don't know for certain. It had fantastic footage of a grizzly chasing down a spotted elk calf (no, the calf didn't make it, but it did outrun the bear for a little while).

Anyway, they also had a terrific scene of a great gray owl vole-delivery and the owlet swallowing the vole whole, one amazingly quick gulp. So clearly an adult owl would not need to chop up a vole to swallow it if a kid doesn't, I'm betting my Tetons owl was intending to deliver its prey to its offspring, since it didn't eat it on the spot.

Learning a lot about owls all of a sudden :-)



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