Great Horned Owl Update Day 3:

Checked the GHO first thing, doing very well this morning. Ate all six mice last night, which put him at nine for the day. He hunkered over, splayed out his wings and puffed up (if possible) even bigger than yesterday. Gave him four mice for the morning, placed strategically across the enclosure. Later in the morning, all his mice were gone when Nancy, our animal curator came by. We watched him for awhile. He has one quite distinguishing characteristic right now. His right ear tuft is mostly missing and so his left ear tuft appears just that much more prominent. Nancy named him Lefty. At the end of the day I placed five mice and a goose leg for his dinner and said goodnight. If he doesn't eat the goose (and hopefully some deer too) he'll eat us out of money in his hopefully-short hospital stay. As it turns out, he has no insurance. Post note: to those that were concerned, no harm would have come to the Lefty yesterday, even if he 'killed' me ;-)