As everyone no doubt knows, getting ready to retire involves cleaning out the files on your computer. While doing some of this today, I found these photos taken back in the spring. These are the great horned owls that nested in a pine tree here at Johnson Space Center. Every day at lunch, there were folks on the sidewalk with cameras pointing upward trying to catch some photos of them. In the top photo, one of the parents sits on the nest with only one of the small chicks visible in front. In the second photo, the results of the parents care and feeding are obvious. The chicks have grown quite large, are out of the nest, growing real feathers, and almost ready to fly away. The parents were still bringing them food, such as small rodents, from the surrounding fields. They were so interesting to watch.
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