Baby Owls in Palm Tree

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Sun Mar 13, 2011 9:27 am

RV-ing friends sent this from Lake Havasu.

What a cutie (the second baby ducked out of the picture):
So there is a benefit to unpruned boots!

<img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5293/552 ... c490_z.jpg" width="640" height="567" alt="110310-Baby_Owl_in_Palm_Tree-700" />

Barb

Wes North Van · Post by **Wes North Van** » Sun Mar 13, 2011 9:38 am

Barb, that is an amazing pic.
Very cool

DesertZone · Post by **DesertZone** » Sun Mar 13, 2011 8:07 pm

On this one I'm glad they did a crap job on the palm clean-up, but I don't get why they would clean off the top boots and leave the others. I see this all the time down south.

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Sun Mar 13, 2011 8:16 pm

I wondered about that too, Aaron.
Many of the pics from their travel/stay at trailer parks showed that too...boots about 3/4 of the way up, clear trunk above and below.
I'm glad the owls find it useful although not very sheltered...

Travellers just sent pics from Oatman, an hour from Lake Havasu.
There's a "downtown" pic with what looks like a gorgeous Yucca brevifolia.
The only plant I've seen in that town's pics.

http://vernoncentral.ca/city/excellent- ... izona.html

Barb

DesertZone · Post by **DesertZone** » Sun Mar 13, 2011 8:26 pm

Great little town, but beware the burros. I made the mistake of buying carrots for them and was over ran by a mob of greedy donks. Even after they ate all the carrots, they still would not leave me alone. Carrots leave a sent that lasts all day.

DesertZone · Post by **DesertZone** » Sun Mar 13, 2011 8:35 pm

lucky1 wrote: There's a "downtown" pic with what looks like a gorgeous Yucca brevifolia.
The only plant I've seen in that town's pics.

Barb

That yuccas is a nice big schidigera (mohave yucca). I think there is a nice j-tree by the post office?, but has been a while sence I've been there.

There is a few nice plants in the town- w. filifera, barrels, I think I also seen some saguaros.

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Fri Mar 18, 2011 3:10 pm

Friends captured a shot of the two owls before they left for Vegas:

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Adorable little ... predators

TerdalFarm · Post by **TerdalFarm** » Fri Mar 18, 2011 7:53 pm

Predators...of mice. I love owls!

My friend in Belize is radio-tracking owls. I'll ask him to send me a photo.

DesertZone · Post by **DesertZone** » Fri Mar 18, 2011 9:40 pm

lucky1 wrote:Friends captured a shot of the two owls before they left for Vegas:

Your friends did an amazing job.

canadianplant · Post by **canadianplant** » Sat Mar 19, 2011 8:55 am

Thats a cool shot!

Lots of cities seem to "clean" their palm trees, cut off dead fronds, trim the bottom leaves ( think of the phoenix in Las Vegas), remove the "skirt" from some plants/palms. Lots of time animals live in these areas, birds, moths, insects, rodents and more live in the read refuse left on palms/some plants. We cut all that off because it "looks good". Im not saying there arent benefits from trimming it, but thats more for us let alone the plant.

That palm in the pic is the same as a woman who shaves her bikini line, and not her legs ( except the wild life hopefully) LOL

Anyone figure out what kind of Owl that is?

TimMAz6 · Post by **TimMAz6** » Sat Mar 19, 2011 11:42 am

Hi Barb,

cool photo of the Owls. I'm sure you instructed your friends to collect some seed for you too!

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Sat Mar 19, 2011 1:21 pm

Agree, Jesse, who would've thought palm boots would provide a home for owls.
Glad they left them on.

instructed your friends to collect some seed

Turns out they tripped over some, and felt obliged to clean seeds off the sidewalk...

...after we ID'd that it was Phoenix Dactylifera seeds.
Civic/tourist duty done.
You're welcome, California.
Anything to help.

Barb

TimMAz6 · Post by **TimMAz6** » Sat Mar 19, 2011 6:16 pm

Hi Barb,

I hate when I trip over seeds and have to clean them off the sidewalk (or clean them off of the tree just in case they will fall off and fall onto the sidewalk). This happens all the time......I don't understand why people place plants near human activity....it's dangerous. LOL

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Sat Mar 19, 2011 6:22 pm

oOOPS, I did forget the part about cleaning them off the tree before they fell onto the sidewalk...80 feet away

TimMAz6 · Post by **TimMAz6** » Sat Mar 19, 2011 6:48 pm

Hi Barb,

cleaning the seed off plants located 80feet away from a sidewalk is really responsible! Sidewalks must be really safe when your around! LOL

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Sat Mar 19, 2011 8:36 pm

Yup!