Little owl comes back to feed

Perjo is coming back to feed every day.   That is such a relief for us.  It’s a wrench to let these little birds go, we are wondering if they will be able to find food and learn to hunt.  Now we know that he is eating and given time will learn to get his supper for himself.  He has to discover his own territory and where there is a lot of mice and rodents.   It’s difficult for a little owl who has been reared, virtually in captivity, to do this.   When we first gave him the opportunity to fly free he was unsure of himself.  Then he flew off and we kept seeing him in and out of the trees in the valley.   When he came back and stsrted ‘clicking’ to us from a beam in one of the stables, it was a great moment.   He took the chicks we’d left out for him and was gone again by next morning.   At the moment he’s coming early morning and at dusk to eat so we klnow he’s doing well.   No more communicatioin – he’s becoming more of a wild owl every day and that is good.