Owls in the family....

No we did not add owls to our already crazy house, but we are reading a book by that name. I added the link to it over there on the right in my Amazon slideshow. Anyway, I decided there would be not better time to dissect owl pellets than now! They look really gross when they are unwrapped but they are quite light and really just a mass of dried fur and bone. We used a wooden stick and tweezers to pull them apart slowly and a chart to try and see what we were getting. That kit is also linked over there on the right.Big Mac found a skull and it was mostly intact, which was cool. Even Wildman got in on it with a careful hand!
Nature seemed to be on our side today as Chickie walked out the door and stumbled upon a bird egg sitting in the grass. Since it was cracked and obviously liquid in the middle we cracked it open to take a look.