Dissecting owl pellets 1/31/13

Thursday we read White Owl, Barn Owl by Nicola Davies. Then we dissected owl pellets. Owls eat their food, such as a mouse, whole and then spit out the bones and fur in a pellet.

 We used toothpicks to pick out bones and used magnifying glasses to see the small bones easier.

The pellets looked like hard poop.The children found skulls, leg bones, teeth, foot bones, toes, ribs, fur and feathers.