Have I got news for you......
Just wish the camera had been aimed at my mum today - she walked into the kitchen, looked at me and said hello - so in return I had a bigggg strecth of the wings followed by a huge drafty flap of wings - then promtly and effortlessly hopped onto the side of my box!!!
Mum was amazed!!! She called dad through and I think he thought mum had set me on the side, so he popped me back in the box and just to show it was ME not mum, I again hopped onto the box side!
So - what happens next you may be wondering - after all, if I can hop onto the side of the box, I can then hop to the floor or work top or anywhere else my box is positioned. I guess I can see why mum and dad are worried, if I hop onto the work top in the kitchen then over step I could end up falling - and in all honestly - even though I like to think I am a big strong owl - I dont think my wings would do much to help me - and I just know I would hot that kitchen floor with a bump!!!
I'm sure mum and dad knew this was going to happen one day soon as dad was prepared for it - he disappeared under the stairs and emerged with a huge box - it must be 3 times higher than my last one - and I DONT LIKE IT!!! Just look how tiny I look in this one....lol
Cant they see things my way - its taken all this time for me to work out HOW to get onto the box side - then they move me into something this big - seems so unfair to me!!! I just cannot see me ever managing to fly out of here....
Having said that, I did sort of earwig on their conversation - they were saying something about how Sid - the last barn owl - was a little older than me by the time he managed to jump onto the box side and then when he went into the huge box it was only a few short weeks before he was flying not jumping from the box - and then he went onto a block
I think Im looking forward to that stage - but a BLOCK?? Ive heard talk of a chopping block and a cutting block - surely not....please tell me I so far from the right spot.....please...
The downy fluff is falling from me so quickly now - I guess this big box means more fluff will stay in it instead of covering everything and everybody in sight as it has been doing - and all my feathers are clearly visable now, my facial disc is all inplace and very defined, my wings are almost clear of the fluff too - my back is still soft and fluffy but as I said, its falling away quickly - and the more stroking I get from mum, the more it falls off too!!!
Today I weighed 14 3/8oz so I am slowly losing the weight which is a good sign - pretty soon I start cutting down on what I eat too - today I've had 5 chicks and 1 mouse - in time when I am ready to go out flying learning to hunt, I will need to be down to around 5oz in weight and eating only 1 chick or 1 mouse a day!!! Seems rather silly that from day 1 I have to be fed and fed and fed every day yet once I get to a certain size I need to start cutting back.....oh well, have to trust dad on this one....after all he knows best!!!
Hope you like the change of photo's - I was pretty suprised when dad brought out his fab, soft and squashy leather hat for me to sit in!!!
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