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acre of grassland will have maybe 200 voles,” San Jule said. “A single vole can live long enough to see the birth of more than a million descendants, but fortunately their life span is just three or four months long because of birds of prey like this.”
While they’re waiting for prey, hawks spend a lot of time preening to keep their feathers flight-ready. “Notice the pronounced eyebrows,” San Jule told the audience. “It’s like the bill of a baseball cap, to help keep the sun out of her eyes.”
San Jule’s falcon and hawk were veterans of show-and-tell presentations like the one at Spring Mountain, but his bam owl, Tyto, was quite a bit more nervous. “The next time I come back here, he’ll be a lot more comfortable in front of a crowd,” he said.
“This is a bird of prey that hunts at night, so it can see in l/100th the amount of light we can,” San Jule told the youngsters. “This kind of owl used to be very common, but now it’s not so common. . . . There are about 40 nesting pairs in the state at last count.”
Barn owls were once called “ghost owls” by farmers who caught only a fleeting glimpse of them at night,” San Jule said. “Imagine that you’re walking into a darkened bam with only a lantern and there’s something flying overhead but there’s no sound. No wonder people thought they were ghosts.”
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