Nicasio School Salt & Pepper New Clutch

Salt & Pepper (Nicasio School) HOP in San Fran, CA (4 Owlets)

Nicasio Owl Box – Salt & Pepper

The owls are settling in at Nicasio School in Nicasio, CA, about 32 miles NW of San Francisco (http://www.nicasioschool.org/).

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/nicasio-owl

This will be Salt & Pepper's First Clutch of 2011..


Pepper has begun to stay in the box 2/13/2011

#1 Egg Laid 2/22/2011@ 3:54pm PST
#2 Egg Laid 2/24/2011@ 2:31pm PST
#3 Egg Laid 2/26/2011@ 5:35pm PST
#4 Egg Laid 3/01/2011 @ 11:26am PST
#5 Egg Laid 3/03/2011 @4:43pm PST

1st egg hatched 6.34 PDT 26th March; will be named by the school children


Pic Of the baby by LadyLaura

Pepper's Baby First Hatch By Slewvi

2nd egg hatched 3/29/2011 @ 1219am PST


Second clutch - (Winter/Spring 2011)
Egg # 1 - Laid 3:54pm PST 2/22/11
Egg # 2 - Laid 2:31pm PST 2/24/11
Egg # 3 - Laid 5:35pm PST 2/26/11
Egg #4 - Laid 11:26am PST 3/01/11
Egg #5 - Laid 4:43pm PST - 3/03/11 (No longer with us. Had a Humpty Dumpty moment)

Owlet 1hatched on 3/26 @ 6:34pm, PST
Owlet 2 hatched on 3/29 @ 12:19am, PST
Owlet 3 hatched on 3/31 @ 6:51pm PST
Owlet 4 hatched: 4/02/11 @ 6:20pm PST
Egg 5 was lost:

The students of Nicasio School have officially named the two barn owls Salt (male) and Pepper (female). They felt that these names were both fun and appropriate as the male owls tend to have a whiter colored breast whereas the females tends to have more dark speckles on their breasts.