Burrowing Owls

The burrowing owls are know for their very long legs and for burrowing in the ground, while most owls live in trees. Unlike other owls the burrowing owls are awake during the day. They have bright yellow eyes, no ear tufts, a flattened facial disc, and white eyebrows. They range to southern and northern America. Before European colonization reached America / the new world, burrowing owls covered all of the new world. Due to deforestation in South America their numbers are decreasing. They are featured in a film called HOOT. There is also a burrowing owl named Digger in a book series called The Guardians of Ga'Hoole.

Eastern screech owls

Eastern screech owls will usually grow to be 16 - 25 cm. They have ear tufts and yellow eyes. Screech owls will mainly feed on large insects. The screech owls endangered rate is on least concern. The screech owls have two color phases, the grey and red phases.

Snowy owls

Large snowy owls breed on the arctic tundra where they will lay 3 to 11 eggs. The parents can be extremely territorial with their eggs and will defend the nest against all animals that pass by. When in the wild the snowy owls can live to 9 years. Unlike most owls the snowy owls are active both day and night! The snowy owl's main food is lemmings. Adults can eat 1,600 lemmings a year! The snowy owl makes a loud screeching noise. Snowy owl males get whiter than females. Females snowy owls are darker white with black spots. Elderly males can get completely white.

Tyto Alba (Barn Owl)

Tyto alba owls are some of the most widely spread out in different countries. They are pale-faced, long-winged, short-tailed owls. When hunting it flies low over open ground. The common age of tyto albas is 4 years old. Usually they only breed once in a lifetime. Its predators are American opossums, raccoons, and other birds like hawks, eagles, other owls, and the biggest threat humans and cats. Owls do not poop, they spit out pellets.

Claiming Ceremony

This summer I'm going to Camp Half Blood. You get claimed by a god then you go in a cabin for that god. When I went to the Alamo with my friend Henry to get claimed, there were donuts!!! After about ten minutes we went into the claiming room. Everyone sat down in one of the chairs and we watched two short videos. Afterwards the oracle came up and started calling people for Aphrodite. Soon it got to Dionysus, the god of wine. They called a couple of of names and near when all the Dionysus people were chosen they called me!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Much later when they stopped doing the last one, Zeus, my friend henry thought he hadn't been chosen but they had pronounced his name wrong. He went up to ask what cabin he was in. HE GOT DIONYSUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Trip to the PetStore

On June 14 me and my dad went to the pet store to buy an air stone for my fish tank. When we got there I wanted to see the fish so we went over there. We saw Blood Parrots, Black Convicts, and Needlefish. Then my dad got the air stone, but he found something that you put under the rocks and makes bubbles. 

We went over to the cats. There was one that wanted the air stick! When we were going there were cages with cats in them. I went over to one and I gave it a scratch it loved, but we had to leave and the cat gave me a sad look.

Cool Rocks

Today I went bike riding and we passed by a house and we bought a green rock and a geod. when we went home Beck wanted a rock too so we went back and he bought a rock with purple in it.