Before the last snowfall, Ben found an owl pellet in the woods behind our home. He recently dissected it and found quite a few bones. We are not certain what kind of owl coughed up this pellet but perhaps we will catch a glance of him in the woods sometime.
Unfortunately, I didn't get a close up of all the bones. I just couldn't get the camera to focus correctly on those tiny little things. There was an awful lot of dark grey fur, probably from field mice or moles. Here are the bones he found:
1 skull
1 femur
4 lower jaw bones with tiny teeth
5 large claws (that looked like they belonged to a squirrel or cat)
2 vertebrae
9 unidentified random tiny bones
This was interesting for the younger children as well. Everyone wanted to have a turn poking around in the fur for bones. Ben was kind enough to oblige even though he had found the pellet himself. It is always fun to find nature to study, right in your own back yard.
