Since 2000 when I started working at the nature center, our female Great Horned Owl has always laid an infertile egg around Christmas time.
Great Horned Owls are the first to lay a clutch in the wild around this time of year. The last two years, she has not laid an egg and I figured she is getting to be an old girl and that time had caught with her egg producing years. Well, this Saturday she proved me wrong!
She laid her holiday egg. We’ll let her keep this egg for 2-4 weeks and then remove it.
Sometimes, she will respond by laying again! I’ll keep you posted on her progress!
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