Friday our home school group came to our house to dissect owl pellets. It was really messy! The pellets were barn owl, and they had lots and lots of little bones inside them. The bones were covered in blackish gray fur. When we started braking them open we realized that the pellets had straw on them which meant that the person who gathered them must of found them in a barn. You could see lots of tiny bones, we figured out that they were rodents, but we never found out exactly what type. The pellets were really stinky. I found a couple of skulls, it kind of creeped me out. It was neat seeing all the little teeth. I liked trying to find out what bone was which. I have always wanted to find a pellet and maybe one day I will.


If you want to read a good book look for One Mans Owl which is a non fiction story by Bernd Heinrich. It is his actual journal with great sketches. It is a story of a man(the author)who finds a great horned owl in a blizzard and takes him home to raise him. He decides to call him Bubo. It is a really funny story about how he teaches Bubo to fly, eat and defend himself in hope that one day he can set Bubo free.