Owls, owls, and more owls

moss said:
Put two more up in the nest I built last week, then did another one in another eastern Massachusetts town in the afternoon. Great horned owl baby season is just about over.


-AJ
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Our AI has decoded all the click click click going on from the chick, as you were in proximity to the nest . . . . it came back as:
"I want Tenderloin, do you have any Tenderloin?
What about Wagyu Ribeye or Kobe?
Well OK, I'll make do with Sirloin, do you have any Sirloin?"

Bet any stress would be blown away with a steak lunch! :-)

Great video AJ
 
After becoming well known for rescuing cats out of trees in eastern Massachusetts, city and town Animal Control Officers, and federally licensed raptor rehabilitators started contacting me to assist them with situations requiring a climber. It keeps growing every year, it will be a total of 4 owls put back up this week.

I get contributions from the general public and sometimes payment from the rehabbers to keep me going. It gets in the way of tree work but the tree work is always waiting for me ;-)
-AJ
 
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Caught this moment in my back yard this evening. A pair of Red Shoulder hawks have nested in a pine about 60 or 70 feet from my back door. This is the first glimpse of youngster. Mom (or dad) just finished delivering dinner to him. Looks like he will be flying soon.
 

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moss said:
After becoming well known for rescuing cats out of trees in eastern Massachusetts, city and town Animal Control Officers, and federally licensed raptor rehabilitators started contacting me to assist them with situations requiring a climber. It keeps growing every year, it will be a total of 4 owls put back up this week.

I get contributions from the general public and sometimes payment from the rehabbers to keep me going. It gets in the way of tree work but the tree work is always waiting for me ;-)
-AJ
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That's really cool, a pretty unique and special thing in my opinion.

I admire your general diversity with tree stuff, as far as I know you've also done some other interesting stuff like drawing tree parts for a book, or did I imagine that. Either way, proper respect to you, AJ!
 
L3VI said:
That's really cool, a pretty unique and special thing in my opinion.

I admire your general diversity with tree stuff, as far as I know you've also done some other interesting stuff like drawing tree parts for a book, or did I imagine that. Either way, proper respect to you, AJ!
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Thank you! I have too many interests to be a specialist but it seems climbing for wildlife and cats is my most interesting activity these days.

I did the drawings for Richard Preston's 2005 book "The Wild Trees", I was not a professional illustrator when I took that on but found a way. More recently I've done the drawings for Joan Maloof's "Natures Temple's, A Natural History of Old-Growth Forests".

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This second edition of "Nature's Temples" was released April 2023 by Princeton University Press with new drawings and expanded text.
-AJ
 
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