At 6:15 this morning, one owlet gives you the first treat on the external cam ... then 5 minutes later you get to see another touching treat when "mom" arrives. Stay with the little one for quite a lot longer...
^^ We watched 2 of the owlets sitting outside for the longest time starting at dusk last night. One was doing that head twisting thing that looked especially spooky with those glowing eyes from the night camera. We wondered how long before they fly off?
I see what you mean. I’m watching them now from 12 hours ago - sitting and blinking their headlights LOL! They are busy in daylight around 6:48 this morning.
BREAKING NEWS Dramatic events continued overnight as the oldest owlet made the move to see the world from the top of it's house at 20:04. MomDad checked in at 21:29 till 21:35. At 22:16 MomDad returned to groom oldest at the top and leaves at 22:19. M/D returns at 00:15 and goes inside and leaves at 00:24 with bird from inside. At 01:17 M/D once again returns. 01:20 sees M/D leave as M/D2 flies in and leaves right away. From 01:36 through 01:45 M/D1 & 2 return to feed the kids. The need to see what the oldest is doing up on the roof brings out middle owlet to do the headbob at 02:53. At 02:59 all owlets are out. M/D returns at 03:06 and leaves at 03:10. All owlets are sleeping outside at 04:30 as they used up all their energy trying to persuade to oldest to go for it. M/D returns at 04:31 to feed the younger ones while the oldest looks down sadly. Feeding time again at 04:47 as middle tries to eat the bird whole! After working on trying to get down, middle re-enters house at 04:55 with bird in mouth. 05:52 M/D returns to feed youngest owlet inside and comes out at 06:00 to feed middle and leave. 06:03 oldest decides it's had enough and flies into tree on the left and promptly flies off. There's no sighting of it after that. There are more feeding for the last 2 from 06:10 to 06:30 when the middle goes in for a nap. At press time both owlets were sleeping inside while the oldest is on the lam. Note: times given are give or take 30 seconds. Terrific soundtrack provided by SaffronKeira.
Thanks for the rundown of events. Just amazing to see all of this over the past few months. We've had owls around our house for as long as we've lived here (a quarter of a century) and we hear them and occasionally see them, but this has been such an intimate experience with these inside/outside streams.
confused Didja see the wider angle on the external camera - starting @ about 15:18? You can see the second owlet in the tree now. We watched him leave the nest earlier - while mom or dad did their cozy care with the two that were left.
Yes, we thought when the inside camera turned off it wouldn't be long before it was all over so we were most happy to see them in the tree. What a storm last night. Those "headlights" certain help to find them in the dark. Also, my wife wanted me thank you on her behalf for posting in the first place.
Still raining there this morning and after yesterday’s cosy all-afternoon snuggle of two owlets, the “middle” owlet still hangs out - drenched. Yes, it was, and still is, a delightful discovery that had me learning quite a bit about their lifestyles. I’m glad you both enjoyed seeing them too.
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then 5 minutes later you get to see another touching treat when "mom" arrives.
Stay with the little one for quite a lot longer...
Dramatic events continued overnight as the oldest owlet made the move to see the world from the top of it's house at 20:04. MomDad checked in at 21:29 till 21:35. At 22:16 MomDad returned to groom oldest at the top and leaves at 22:19. M/D returns at 00:15 and goes inside and leaves at 00:24 with bird from inside. At 01:17 M/D once again returns. 01:20 sees M/D leave as M/D2 flies in and leaves right away. From 01:36 through 01:45 M/D1 & 2 return to feed the kids.
The need to see what the oldest is doing up on the roof brings out middle owlet to do the headbob at 02:53. At 02:59 all owlets are out. M/D returns at 03:06 and leaves at 03:10. All owlets are sleeping outside at 04:30 as they used up all their energy trying to persuade to oldest to go for it. M/D returns at 04:31 to feed the younger ones while the oldest looks down sadly. Feeding time again at 04:47 as middle tries to eat the bird whole! After working on trying to get down, middle re-enters house at 04:55 with bird in mouth.
05:52 M/D returns to feed youngest owlet inside and comes out at 06:00 to feed middle and leave. 06:03 oldest decides it's had enough and flies into tree on the left and promptly flies off. There's no sighting of it after that.
There are more feeding for the last 2 from 06:10 to 06:30 when the middle goes in for a nap. At press time both owlets were sleeping inside while the oldest is on the lam.
Note: times given are give or take 30 seconds. Terrific soundtrack provided by SaffronKeira.
Just amazing to see all of this over the past few months.
We've had owls around our house for as long as we've lived here
(a quarter of a century) and we hear them and occasionally see them,
but this has been such an intimate experience with these inside/outside streams.
You can see the second owlet in the tree now. We watched him leave the nest earlier -
while mom or dad did their cozy care with the two that were left.
the “middle” owlet still hangs out - drenched. Yes, it was, and still is, a delightful discovery that
had me learning quite a bit about their lifestyles. I’m glad you both enjoyed seeing them too.
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Continuing the fertile collaboration initiated in 2012 with Recollection GRM, the GRM and Editions MEGO have decided to offer a complementary series, no longer focused on the “classic” GRM repertoire but towards recent creations commissioned by the GRM to artists from all horizons. This Portraits GRM series will focus on important and emerging figures of the experimental music scene and will highlight the notion of work rather than album.
Many releases in the collection will be contemporary works by two different musicians, each piece taking up the space of one side. Longer works however, will fill an entire record.
This new series will come to life with the release of two records, the first devoted to the piece Shutting Down Here by Jim O'Rourke, and the second to the works Metabolist Meter (Foster, Cottin, Caetani, and a Fly) by Max Eilbacher and Forma by Lucy Railton.
By reaffirming the concept of musical work, the Portraits GRM series seeks to renew with the pioneering work that the GRM Collection series but also the Philips Prospective 21e Siècle collection had achieved so admirably: offer a panorama of current musical experimentations and embrace a more durable scope with works that manage to extract themselves from an increasingly tyrannical and increasingly hazardous present-time. At a time when nothing knows how to “leave a mark”, this series aims to address both current listeners, and explorers of the future.
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Our amazing World is developing and changing extremely fast and intensively. And so are we, as an organic and integral part of it.
What time is better for a radical change than during such a great turmoil we all are living through right now?
We feel that together with many other great changes, some completely new relations between an artist and a listener are being formed right now. Relations and communication streams which are much more direct and personal than ever before. And the role of a label as a mediator between listener and producer is changing drastically, giving life to something new.
After almost 14 years of our development and more than 70 releases in our catalogue, we believe that Kvitnu has written its own and very special page in a history of experimental music. We have grown together with our artists, with whom we have created and shaped Kvitnu’s unique sound. Our great and loyal International audience who supported us over the years is the best proof that we did something really good and honest from the heart.
But everything comes to an end one day. Good projects too.
Our future is greatly unpredictable and we are jumping into this new wave with a lot of new hopes, plans and ideas!
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