Second Update and Compilation of 4/27/23 Data

After collecting more bones and pellets for a few months after I made the project, I decided it was time for another update. Since early-mid March, I have barely found any new pellets at its roost, so it might be using a different area of the park.
The owl continues to eat more mammals than birds. I have yet to find an herp bones in the pellets, but there's still the rest of spring and summer. After continually finding rufous eastern screech owl feathers throughout the months, I decided that it only ate 1 screech owl.

Observation Highlights:

This brown rat partial skull and other bones:

An almost complete northern short tailed shrew skull and other bones:

Many thanks to all of the identifiers!
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Posted on April 28, 2023 07:41 PM by brennafarrell