Tawny owl      Kodukakk      Strix aluco

Klaara  laid the third egg in the nest hollow after midnight.

She does not leave the nest immediately after laying an egg. With feeding everything seems to be in order for her. On the bottom of the nest trunk we see the white eggs surrounded by owl pellets – they contain mouse hairs, bones, teeth, all that the bird cannot digest. The pellets are ejected from the digestive tract by vomiting.

Tawny owl often throw up the pellets  on rising into flight from the nest trunk; the little droppings are a couple of inches long and up to an inch in diameter. At the foot of the tree they reveal the nesting place.