Greetings and Good Morning from the Roost!!

Luckily the weather here as been cooler for August.  Our birds are probably quite happy.
Anywho you are here to find out about our birds.

Who is just cute little guy you make ask.  This is Cooper.  He is an Eastern Screech Owl red phase.  He is an adult full size.  Cooper may weigh 200 grams.  He may be a tiny little owl but he has lots of energy.  

Owls are either Nocturnal or Crepuscular.  There is new word to add to your vocabulary today.  Crepuscular means dusk and dawn hunter.  Cooper is Crepuscular I believe.  

Cooper's general habits here at Raptors Roost are eating around 9pm-11pm a diet of either rodents or quail and then quiet until 3am or so.  Cooper loves to take a bath and will take a bath every night.  Typically the floor of his cage is soaked where he gets in and gets wet.  I think most of us can relate to splashing around in the bathtub at some point in our lives.


Screech Owls are common here in Middle Tennessee.  You may never see them, but you can hear them.  They don't hoot like you might imagine.  Screech Owls trill.  The trill will either be the same tone or ascending or descending depending on what they are communicating.  

Cooper is non releaseable and like Sadie he has a survivor story.

Cooper hit a house window one night and the owner found him the next morning taking him to Upstate Birds of Prey near Chattanooga, TN.  They rehabilitaed Cooper for a shoulder injury and they found him a home here at the Roost.  His one wing will always droop he does not fly well at all.  Cooper has been a wonderful education ambassador for us.  He is approachable, cute and calm in public.