...and then a few others...
...and still some more...
A few feet away, I found a whole wing!
I flipped it over to see the other side:
* * * and now for the bones * * *
I stumbled upon a 'treasure' the other day while walking in a field. These deer bones were scattered about and picked totally clean by some other animal. After snapping a picture, I gathered up as many as I could hold. Having walked the same path just a couple days prior to finding this and not seeing any hint of it, I was amazed at how clean these bones were in such a short time.
These bones belong to a tiny rodent. I extracted them from an owl pellet--a neat little package of undigestable parts of an animal that an owl has eaten. It was regurgitated and expelled onto the ground below the branch it perched. Another treasure!! I took the time to examine the contents, but unlike the animal mentioned above, I was not thorough in cleaning them and I lacked the patience to find each and every sliver of bone; they were discarded just after I took this picture:
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