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The last session!!!!

With lots of shouts of urrgggghhh! we dissected barn owl pellets.

When owls catch voles and mice they really enjoy eating the meat but they cannot digest the bones so they save them up, create a sort of ‘furball’ full of bones and spit it out - that’s what an owl pellet is!

When you start looking closely into these pellets you find an amazing selection of bones - some skulls, leg bones, pelvic bones, teeth and claws!

We could identify several vole skulls, some mice and even a rat (we think!).

We’ve finished now for the summer so a huge thank you goes to all those involved in the Minsterley Eco Club.

Have a great summer!