Saturday
May052007
Owls at Ascot Station
Sat 2007-05-05
On Friday afternoon I was waiting for my train at Ascot when I noticed this owl pellet on the platform, just beside a lamp-post. During the previous night, an owl must have alighted on the lamp-post to regurgitate the hard, indigestible parts of the animals it had eaten. The pellet appears to mostly consist of beetle wing-cases, and the hair and bones of a small shrew or mouse. You can see the shoulder blades of the latter in the lower left corner of the photo.
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