My wife, Linda, does most of our Christmas shopping, but occasionally I’m inspired to buy a few special gifts. A few weeks ago I introduced my grandson, five-year old Garek, to owl pellets. I had been ...

Patrick Gosciniak peeled open the silver foil to reveal his newest class project, a thumb-size chunk bearing an unsettling resemblance to a moldy chicken nugget. But when the 9-year-old Naperville ...

Somewhere in the Pacific Northwest, a barn owl has just eaten a mouse. Twelve hours from now, give or take, it will regurgitate a compact mass of fur and bones known as an owl pellet. The pellet will ...

BELLINGHAM -- Somewhere, as you read this, a long-legged, heart-faced barn owl is stretching out its neck and delicately upchucking. Out drops a compact pellet of undigested lunch, which falls onto a ...

WINDHAM — Students in grades 3-6 participated in the second WAJ Science Club program of the school year on Nov. 16. The WAJ Science Club, coordinated by Debbie Valerio, WAJ Teacher, and Anna McGrew, 4 ...

A pasqueflower and a barn owl pellet speak differently about their connection to place. Each is everything the other is not. You cannot hear what they say; you can only perceive it through an ...

Frankly, it looked like a pile of dog turds: a mound of dark, oblong pellets about an inch in diameter and 2-inches long. But I was quite sure they weren’t left by a dog. They were very light in ...

Barn owls swoop down on rodents and swallow them whole – gophers, voles and mice, gone in a few gulps. But how do they keep down all that food? Well, they don’t. In a few stomach-turning steps, they ...

My wife, Linda, does most of our Christmas shopping, but occasionally I’m inspired to buy a few special gifts. A few weeks ago I introduced my grandson, five-year old Garek, to owl pellets. I had been ...

My wife, Linda, does most of our Christmas shopping, but occasionally I’m inspired to buy a few special gifts. A few weeks ago I introduced my grandson, 5-year-old Garek, to owl pellets. I had been ...