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Seattle.
The Barred Owl kids are making short flights between branches now but haven't started hunting on their own yet. Their parents bring whole prey animals to them, which they dispatch quite efficiently.
Below, left to right: two owlets and an adult owl. Yes, that's part of a small mammal obscuring the middle owlet's face, and it is quite dead. The owlet in possession had been pulling out guts just before this picture was taken.
I'm not quite sure of the identity of this small mammal. Whatever it is, the owlet is holding it upside down with the head out of sight and hind legs splayed out around the owlet's head.
Based on past pellet analysis and the dead critter's size, shape and color, I'm thinking that it's either a Townsend's Vole or a Norwegian Rat. Anyone have knowledge? expertise? good guesses?
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