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Nicasio Owl Box – Salt & Pepper

409,063 Live Views 418 In Crowd The owls are settling in at Nicasio School in Nicasio, CA, about 32 miles NW of San Francisco (http://www.nicasioschool.org).
To support Nicasio School, visit http://www.nicasioSF.org. Donations ensure that all students of Nicasio have enrichment… The owls are settling in at Nicasio School in Nicasio, CA, about 32 miles NW of San Francisco (http://www.nicasioschool.org).
To support Nicasio School, visit http://www.nicasioSF.org. Donations ensure that all students of Nicasio have enrichment classes such as Art, Music, and Spanish.

The owl box and camera were installed by the Hungry Owl Project (HOP) in spring 2007 as part of its education program. HOP is a non-profit that promotes the use of non-toxic pest control by encouraging farms, ranches, vineyards, public lands and homeowners to install HOP-designed barn owl boxes instead of using rodent poisons to control pests.For more information or to make a donation to the Hungry Owl Project, please visit (http://www.hungryowl.org).

First clutch - (Spring/Summer 2010)
Owl # 1 - Ginger - Egg laid 1:30pm PST 4/4/10; Hatched 6:28pm PST 5/8/10
Owl # 2 - Cinnamon - Egg laid 10:30am PST 4/7/10; Hatched 2:33pm PST 5/9/10
Owl # 3 - Peppermint - Egg laid 12-4pm PST 4/9/10; Hatched 11-11:30pm PST 5/10/10

Second clutch - (Winter/Spring 2011)
Egg # 1 - Laid 3:54pm PST 2/22/11
Egg # 2 - Laid 2:31pm PST 2/24/11
Egg # 3 - Laid 5:35pm PST 2/26/11
Egg #4 - Laid 11:26am PST 3/01/11
Egg #5 - Laid 4:43pm PST - 3/03/11 (No longer with us. Had a Humpty Dumpty moment)

Names:
Posey - Owlet 1hatched on 3/26 @ 6:34pm, PST
Lincecum - Owlet 2 hatched on 3/29 @ 12:19am, PST
Cain - Owlet 3 hatched on 3/31 @ 6:51pm PST
Torrez - Owlet 4 hatched: 4/02/11 @ 6:20pm PST - Flying high. Was lost.
Egg 5 was lost:

The students of Nicasio School have officially named the two barn owls Salt (male) and Pepper (female). They felt that these names were both fun and appropriate as the male owls tend to have a whiter colored breast whereas the females tends to have more dark speckles on their breasts. More