UPDATE

[phosfate]

"What is an owl pellet? It's the football-shaped object regurgitated twice a day by owls, which contains the skeleton of at least one owl meal, be it a mouse, vole, shrew, or small bird."

http://www.amazon.com/Owl-Puke-Book-Jane-Hammerslough/dp/0761131868

Comments

[wolfy-writing.livejournal.com]

You didn't get the lesson in elementary school where you cut open the owl pellet with scalpels and picked out the tiny bones inside?

[swankyfunk.livejournal.com]

Well there ya go. He left you a gift.

[kirbyfest.livejournal.com]

I need to crawl under a blankie now. Yech.

[txvoodoo.livejournal.com]

I didn't realize that you didn't know that. Oh, my.

[ymfaery]

So maybe it _is_ waiting for the robins to come back. Although I don't recall off-hand how big robins are, so maybe they're not that small.