[tn-bird] Re: Identity of eggs on floor of Silo?
- From: Robbie Hassler <drhass@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2002 16:00:09 -0600
JOHN.......
Barn Owls have been nesting on the bare ground floor of a silo for at least
five years, in the Pall Mall comunity in Fentress County, TN, about 15 miles
from our home in Pickett County. We were invited by the farm owner to come
and check it out. I climbed the ladder attached to the outside walls of the
silo to a point where I could look down and see the eggs on the ground. I
was expecting to see them on an inside ledge closer to the top. The parent
birds were perched on the top rim watching me. One took careful aim and
splashed me good with a warm wash on my shoulder. I thought about saying,
"that's pretty good, but you missed my head." Later my friends Fred Aslop
and Dee Eiklor and I revisited and were able to open a small door close to
the ground of the silo and found 4 young owls in stair step sizes, hissing,
bill clicking and swaying their heads. The two largest had out spread wings
doing sort of a side step dance, the third was half-heartedly doing the same
and the smallest was peering out from behind them. Fred and Dee got some
great photos.
Robbie Hassler, Byrdstown, TN.......Pickett County
----- Original Message -----
From: John Devereux Joslin <jdjoslin@xxxxxxxxx>
To: TN-Bird <tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, March 24, 2002 1:34 PM
Subject: [tn-bird] Identity of eggs on floor of Silo?
>
> Exploring an old barn around 11 am today (Mar. 24) at Freels Bend, Oak
> Ridge, we discovered 5 intact white eggs (oval, about 3 inch long) on
> the bare floor of a silo. Numerous pellets and nuch white guano
> splotching were found in another part of the silo, but no evidence of
> nesting material or a parent in the vicinity.
> Eggs fit the description of a Barn Owl, and this species has been
> found in this barn in previous years. But they are supposed to brood
> throughout the nesting period and should be roosting during the day
> anyway. Is it possible we scared the parent(s) away. Are Barn Owls
> likely to lay their eggs on the bare floor of a silo?
> At the other end of this very long old milking barn was a Black
> Vulture, sitting beneath the floor, apparently either brooding or
> injured. Many similar pellets and white splotching at that end of the
> barn as well. But both vulture species are supposed to lay only 1-3
> eggs, they are (Black Vulture eggs are not pure white, tho turkey may
> be.) Would vultures lay 5 white eggs on a bare floor in a silo?
> Looking for identification help,
> Dev Joslin
> Oak Ridge, TN
>
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