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Small moments.Wild stories.

Action shots and short clips from the nest box—each with a field note about parents, food deliveries, chicks, and movement in the box.

Nest archive photos come from the OwlCam group; their original capture dates were not preserved in the shared files, so timestamps show when each was logged here. The clip marked placeholder is licensed stock standing in until OwlCam records its own video.

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Hand-built owl-shaped nest box on a porch rail at night, with camera lenses set into its eyesView full sizeNEST ARCHIVE
PHOTO2026-08-29

The box itself

Before any owl moved in, the nest box sat on the porch rail with lenses set into its eyes—an owl built to watch owls. Layered shingle feathers, a driftwood perch, and a doorway sized for a barred owl family.

FIELD NOTE · nest-box-build.jpg

Media: Shared in the OwlCam group

Downy owlet looking out of the owl-shaped nest box doorwayView full sizeNEST ARCHIVE
PHOTO2026-08-29

Chick in the doorway

A downy chick fills the doorway, still mostly fluff, watching woods it has not flown yet. Behind it the camera housing sits back in the dark of the box—the same vantage the live feed carries.

FIELD NOTE · owlet-in-doorway.jpg

Media: Shared in the OwlCam group

Owlet standing on the front ledge of the nest box in daylightView full sizeNEST ARCHIVE
PHOTO2026-08-29

Standing tall

Up on the front ledge, wings tucked, the owlet practices being a whole owl. Branching like this comes before real flight, and it is when a parent's food runs are hardest to keep up with.

FIELD NOTE · owlet-on-ledge.jpg

Media: Shared in the OwlCam group

Adult barred owl perched on a branch in green summer canopyView full sizeNEST ARCHIVE
PHOTO2026-08-29

The parent

The adult keeps station in the canopy: dark eyes, barred chest, no sound at all. This is the bird the box was built for, and the one whose comings and goings make a whole night worth watching.

FIELD NOTE · adult-barred-owl.jpg

Media: Shared in the OwlCam group

PLACEHOLDER CLIP
VIDEO2013-07-21

Food

A mole becomes a hard-won meal. When OwlCam catches food arriving at the box, the clues—prey, parent, time, and which chick eats first—can turn a few seconds into a family story.

FIELD NOTE · mole-delivery.webm

Media: Mike · CC BY 2.0 · license