Here comes the sun—sounds of Spring.

Portrait 2, Maria. I haven’t taken Maria’s portrait for awhile, and it’s my favorite. So I took two.

Only Maria would come home from a walk excited by the jaw of a mouse she found while picking through an owl pellet.  She was beaming as if she came across a hidden gold bar.

Indigestible material left in the gizzard, such as teeth, skulls, claws, and feathers, is too dangerous to pass through the rest of the owl’s digestive tract. To safely excrete this material, the owl’s gizzard compacts it into a tight pellet that the owl regurgitates. The regurgitated pellets are known as owl pellets.