Vain pieni jääkauden kivi puiden keskellä. “Ei oli tällä kun aloitimme!”

cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/46150728

Guess who crawled out! (it’s not the tree with the box, but I don’t think it was proper flight yet either). This somewhat looks like there are 4 of them, like this

however, later in the evening I was walking around them; there are clearly just 2 on this branch

but someone chirps with these two from deeper forest just some meters behind. I can see them move their beaks when they chirp, and there is clearly someone else.

Either way, at least two fat chickens are staring at me now. It’s fascinating and I so much want to pet them.

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Finally got to see the little dudes from this not so little dudess https://sopuli.xyz/post/42978502

after hearing them for quite some time. Curious how many are there, but not so curious to get injured!

cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/42978502

All you got to do is put a box on a tree at the right time and you’ll catch one!

Now this owl nestbox is special, I can actually watch it from my window without disterbing the tenant. I’d post quality pictures but my dog dropped my birding canon sx60 into a lake last summer, instant 2m+ just near shore pushed the water in between the sealed lenses somehow, so all I have are these crude smartphone pictures.

Strix uralensis, she nested in another one of my boxes 2 years ago, quite successfully it seems. Savo, Finland.