Its been another busy week. The current baby count is 1 Swainson’s Hawk, 2 Red-tailed Hawks, 7 American Kestrels, 3 Great Horned Owls and 33 Barn Owls. The rapidly growing youngsters are eating about 300 mice per day as of Sunday. The older Barn Owls have leveled off at 4 or 5 mice per day while the Red-tailed Hawks and Great Horned Owls are each eating 10 mice. Earlier in the year I took advantage of a rodent sale and purchased 10,000 mice. I’m down to the last few hundred and will need to order more this week.

Fortunately, most of the birds are eating on their own, with little encouragement needed. The kestrels need their mice cut into bite-sized pieces.  Almost everyone else can swallow them whole!

This newsletter will be short and sweet so I can start prepping food for the evening meal!