Image: “Barn Owl, Placerita Canyon Nature Center, Placerita Canyon Natural Area, Newhall, CA 4,” by Alice B. Clagett, 1 December 2024, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..
Image: “Barn Owl, Placerita Canyon Nature Center, Placerita Canyon Natural Area, Newhall, CA 4,” by Alice B. Clagett, 1 December 2024, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..
INTRODUCTION
VIDEO BY ALICE
SUMMARY OF THE VIDEO
PHOTOS BY ALICE
VIDEO CREDITS
MUSICAL CREDITS
CONCLUSION
INTRODUCTION
Dear Ones,
Here is a video about a Barn Owl. There is a Summary after the video. There are also photos.
VIDEO BY ALICE
SUMMARY OF THE VIDEO
“Barn Owl”
By Alice B. Clagett
Alice: Oh, wow! What a fine-looking Owl!
Owl’s Caretaker: He likes to hear that!
Alice: Oh my gosh, yeah!
Owl’s Caretaker: Let me get those wings out for you.
Alice to Caretaker: Wow, thank you!
Alice to Owl: Wow, aren’t you something! Wow!
PHOTOS BY ALICE
Image: “Barn Owl, Placerita Canyon Nature Center, Placerita Canyon Natural Area, Newhall, CA 1,” by Alice B. Clagett, 1 December 2024, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..
Image: “Barn Owl, Placerita Canyon Nature Center, Placerita Canyon Natural Area, Newhall, CA 1,” by Alice B. Clagett, 1 December 2024, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..
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Image: “Barn Owl, Placerita Canyon Nature Center, Placerita Canyon Natural Area, Newhall, CA 2,” by Alice B. Clagett, 1 December 2024, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..
Image: “Barn Owl, Placerita Canyon Nature Center, Placerita Canyon Natural Area, Newhall, CA 3,” by Alice B. Clagett, 1 December 2024, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..
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Image: “Barn Owl, Placerita Canyon Nature Center, Placerita Canyon Natural Area, Newhall, CA 3,” by Alice B. Clagett, 1 December 2024, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..
Image: “Barn Owl, Placerita Canyon Nature Center, Placerita Canyon Natural Area, Newhall, CA 3,” by Alice B. Clagett, 1 December 2024, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..
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VIDEO CREDITS
“Barn Owl”
by Alice B. Clagett
Filmed on 1 December 2024
Location: Placerita Canyon Nature Center, Placerita Canyon Natural Area, Newhall, CA
Produced by Shoes on 4 December 2024
CC BY-SA 4.0 International
MUSICAL CREDITS
Music by JuliusH from Pixabay “Elves – Celtic Flute and Dance Music” – Pixabay License
CONCLUSION
In love, light and joy
This is Alice B. Clagett.
I Am of the Stars … and so are you!
Filmed on 1 December 2024; produced and published on 4 December 2024; youtube transcript edited on 1 March 2026
Image: “Great Horned Owl, Placerita Canyon Nature Center, Placerita Canyon Natural Area, Newhall, CA,” by Alice B. Clagett, 1 December 2024, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..
Image: “Great Horned Owl, Placerita Canyon Nature Center, Placerita Canyon Natural Area, Newhall, CA,” by Alice B. Clagett, 1 December 2024, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..
INTRODUCTION
VIDEO BY ALICE
SUMMARY OF THE VIDEO
VIDEO CREDITS
MUSICAL CREDITS
CONCLUSION
INTRODUCTION
Dear Ones,
Here is a video about a Great Horned Owl. There is a brief Summary after the video.
VIDEO BY ALICE
SUMMARY OF THE VIDEO
“Great Horned Owl”
By Alice B. Clagett
The Owl’s Caretaker says to the Owl: Here, want some water?
Alice: That’s a thirsty Owl.
Alice: Thank you very much.
VIDEO CREDITS
“Great Horned Owl”
by Alice B. Clagett
Filmed on 1 December 2024
Location: Placerita Canyon Nature Center, Placerita Canyon Natural Area, Newhall, CA
Produced by Shoes on 4 December 2024
CC BY-SA 4.0 International
MUSICAL CREDITS
Music by JuliusH from Pixabay “Elves – Celtic Flute and Dance Music” – Pixabay License
CONCLUSION
In love, light and joy
This is Alice B. Clagett.
I Am of the Stars … and so are you!
Filmed on 1 December 2024; produced and published on 4 December 2024; youtube transcript edited on 1 March 2026
The Songbirds do circles in the air. Then they try to teach me Songbird lingo. Then they try to teach the Scrub Jays to say ‘I love you too.’ I like Songbirds very much.
There is a Summary after the video …
VIDEO BY ALICE
SUMMARY OF THE VIDEO
We Do Circles in the Air!
By Alice B. Clagett
Two Birds just flew over. They looked like Songbirds. They were a flying duet. And they did kind of circles, kind of curvy, following each other acrobatics in the air.
And I said: Wow, look at you two! Aren’t you good fliers!
And they said: We do circles in the air!
Alice to Readers: Cool, huh?
Alice to Songbirds: We do circles in the air! Way cool! Wow, coolest thing anywhere!
Alice to Readers: The same Birds are talking very softly. Can you hear them?
Songbird to Alice: We are very very EXPERIENCED … EXPERIENCED … Yep, We are REAL EXPERIENCED.
Alice to Songbirds (repeating, so they will know I understand them): We are EXPERIENCED at stuff like that.
Songbird to Alice: Yep, We are. THANK you!
Alice to Songbirds (repeating): Yes, You are experienced very good? Very good.
Alice: Uh oh!
Alice to Readers: A Bird behind me calls out in a rasping voice.
Songbird: Dear me! Where is that Strange Big Birdbehind me? I see two or three over behind her.
Alice to Strange Big Bird: What’s that? Hawk? Is it Hawk? … Hawk? … Hawk?
Alice to Readers: There is that rasping Bird cry again.
Alice to Strange Big Bird: Hawk?
Songbird to Alice: Yes, We hear it too.
Alice to Strange Big Bird: Hawk are you? What is that? Who are you?
Strange Big Bird to Alice (in a rasping voice): We’re NOT FROM here. We’re from somewhere else.
Scrub Jay (?): Stop that! Stop that! Stop that!
Alice to Strange Big Bird: Are you in the woods?
Alice to herself: Jays! Scrub jays? Are you Scrub Jays?
Strange Big Bird to Alice (in a rasping voice): We’re not Scrub Jays. We’re something else.
Alice to Strange Big Bird: I love you!
Strange Big Bird to Alice (in a rasping voice): I love you too.
Scrub Jay (?) in a rasping voice: We-e-e-e love her too.
Scrub Jay (?) in a rasping voice: We-e-e-e …
Songbird (helping out): … love her very very much.
Scrub Jay (?) in a rasping voice: We-e-e-e …
Alice to Songbird that is flying away: Wow, Look at you!
Songbird (helping out): She wants you to say …
Alice to Songbird that is flying away: Wow!
Songbird (helping out): … love her very very much.
Alice to Readers: And they’re off [have flown away].
Scrub Jay to Alice (in a dry, rasping voice): Jay! What? … What? … What?
Alice to herself: They [the Scrub Jays] don’t say ANY-thing.
Alice to Readers: Scrub Jay is saying, ‘What?’ as Songbirds continue to explain how to say, ‘I love you’ when someone says the same to the Scrub Jays.
I can barely hear the Songbirds talking very softly.
One Songbird says: Predator Birds can’t hear you or speak.
Alice to Songbirds: Who said that … ‘Predator Birds do not say anything’?
Coyote (in a sussurating, menacing, undertone, using a sinister, measured cadence and flat intonation): Bumpety bump bump in the night.
Songbird to Alice: It REALLY is true. Predator Birds do not say anything.
Alice to Readers: I looked the diet of Scrub Jays up. Besides insects, fruit, nuts, and seeds, they also eat small Lizards and Baby Birds. I expect it is the latter to which the Songbird is referring when it calls the Scrub Jay a Predator Bird.
Eerie Distant Voice: He IS the Campground Leader.
Alice to Eerie Distant Voice: You are the Campground Leader here? Are you Human?
Two voices speak at once. One voice sounds like the Wind chuckling: No-o-o-o, He is not Human, but he does not want you to know who he is.
The other voice, speaking at the same time is hushed and whining: No, I’m not a Human Being. I’m the Owl.
Songbird to Alice: No, We are the Songbirds.
[Alice to Readers: I get the Songbirds may not be able to hear these sinister low voices. Whether or not that is all for the best is up for debate.]
Alice to Hushed, Whining Voice: You’re the Campground Leader? … Campground Leader?
Hushed, Whining Voice: Yes, I AM the Campground Leader.
Voice on the Wind: Yes, He is the Campground Leader. That’s what he is.
Songbird (unnerved): We are the Songbirds! … Songbirds! … Songbirds!
Alice to Hushed, Whining Voice: Well, What are you?
Voice on the Wind: Don’t get distracted by the Songbirds.
Songbird to Alice: We are the … REALLY LISTEN … just the Songbirds!
Voice on the Wind to the Songbirds: No, She DOES-n’t listen.
Alice to Readers: This deciphering of dialect is hard for me to do because the Songbirds’ hearing is so much more acute than my own.
Alice to Hushed, Whining Voice: Oh, are you there?
Songbird to Alice (confused): No!
Alice to Songbird: Not anybody I know … Right?
Songbird to Alice (whistling the first words to get my attention: WE-E-E-E AR-R-RE the Songbirds!
Hushed Voice to Alice: You could say ‘the mystery deepens’.
Alice to Readers (taking the hint): The mystery deepens. Definitely.
Scrub Jay to Alice: Right, the mystery deepens.
Voice on the Wind to Alice: No, It doesn’t.
Alice to Readers: Who IS that Campground Leader?
Voice on the Wind to Alice: It was the Owl, I think.
Alice to Readers: Is that a telepathing Human who wants to be in disguise?
[It turns out Owl is the Hushed, Whining Voice. The Voice on the Wind is still unidentified. Could it be a Coyote?]
Songbird to Alice (whistling the first words to get my attention: WE-E-E-E AR-R-RE the Songbirds!
Alice to Readers: Am I ever hard of hearing! Between me and the Scrub Jays, the Songbirds are having one ONEROUS teaching session!
Alice to Readers: Is that [the Hushed, Whining Voice] some other kind of animal? Or is it a Nature Spirit?
Voice on the Wind (wondering): What IS a nature spirit?
Alice to Hushed Voice: Nobody’s saying it. I want to know! Who are you?
Songbird to Alice: Tee hee hee! We are the Songbirds. Yep!
Alice to Hushed Voice: Who are You?
Songbird to Alice (embarrassed, muted): We are the Songbirds.
Alice to Readers: Don’t know!
Conclusion
God bless you all,
And keep you safe,
And be with you
Through all your days.
In love, light and joy
This is Alice B. Clagett.
I Am of the Stars … and so are you!
Filmed on 19 June 2024 and published on 3 July 2024; transcribed and youtube transcription edited on 24 January 2026
VIDEO CREDITS
“We Do Circles in the Air!”
by Alice B. Clagett
Filmed on 19 June 2024 and produced on
3 July 2024
Location: Circle X Ranger Station, Santa Monica Mountains, CA
CC BY-SA 4.0 International
PHOTOS BY ALICE
Image: “Scrub Jay Maybe 1,” by Alice B. Clagett, 19 June 2024, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..
Image: “Scrub Jay Maybe 1,” by Alice B. Clagett, 19 June 2024, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..
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Image: “Scrub Jay Maybe 2,” by Alice B. Clagett, 19 June 2024, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..
Image: “Scrub Jay Maybe 2,” by Alice B. Clagett, 19 June 2024, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..
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Image: “Scrub Jay Maybe 3,” by Alice B. Clagett, 19 June 2024, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..
Image: “Scrub Jay Maybe 3,” by Alice B. Clagett, 19 June 2024, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..
Image: “Santa Monica Mountains 2: Our Lord’s Candle,” by Alice B. Clagett, 25 May 2024, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..
Image: “Santa Monica Mountains 2: Our Lord’s Candle,” by Alice B. Clagett, 25 May 2024, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..
INTRODUCTION
VIDEO BY ALICE
SUMMARY OF THE VIDEO
In Our Last Episode
Hens and Roosters and Songbirds and Owls
VIDEO CREDITS
INTRODUCTION
Dear Ones,
Here are the second conversations in the “Chaparral Wildlife Chats” series. I spoke with these songbirds in the Santa Monica Mountains, California.
There is a Summary after the video …
VIDEO BY ALICE This is the second of several Chaparral Wildlife Chats. All the chats happened during the same hike.
SUMMARY OF THE VIDEO
In Our Last Episode
Alice to Readers: That Rooster doesn’t want to say, “I love you. I love you.” [Trying for Rooster dialect …] “Ur Urov U.”
Hummingbird: Jesus! [i.e., the absurdity of this notion!] … Listen to this!
Rooster crows: I do not love!
Alice to Rooster (addressing the fine crowing sound and not the words): Very good! That’s better and better! Good work! Thank you! Very good! … [modeling the words] I LOVE you!
Songbird: Holy Jesus, she want’s the Rooster to say ‘I love you’.
Telepathically, a Human Child is saying to the Human Woman: Unbelievable situation, Momma. She wants the Rooster to say, ‘I love you’.
Alice to Human Child: Thank you, young one!
Alice to Readers: Young One over there … Young Human One … says she’ll work on that thing.
Alice to Rooster: I LOVE you … Good work!
Songbird: Over and over she says that thing.
Alice to Readers: You hear that? I think it’s catching on. ‘I love you’. And soon everybody will say that. ‘I love you.’ Good, good. ‘I love you’. Good work! ‘I love you. I love you’. Thank you. You’re doing great.
Wow. I’m bowled over. I am. Thank you.
2. Hens and Roosters and Songbirds and Owls
Well, on the telepathic plane I was just talking to the man over there the man with the little girl. Or maybe it was a Hen. Maybe the little girl taught the Hen and then the Hen’s trying to teach a Rooster.
You know it how it is with gender bias.The Roosters feel they ought not say ‘I love you’, and it takes a Hen to help them learn.
Anyway, I was talking to the man over there. He wanted to know what it was about the Nandays and the Owls, so I explained that those kinds of Birds …
[Hear the sound? I think this is the Songbird saying its name … “Weeeee! Weeeee! Weeeee!”]
Alice to Readers (continuing): … are afraid … terrified of the Owls. Even the Hawks are terrified of the Owls.
Songbird: “Weeeee! Weeeee! LISTEN to me!”
Alice to Readers (continuing): The Hawk told me that’s because in the middle of the night the Owls don’t make any sound at all; and they can fly right up to the nest. Those big Birds .. the Ravens and the Hawks … don’t leave the nest at night.
Alice to Readers (continuing): They don’t leave the trees. Then the Owl flies right up and steals their babies and flies off in the night.
You see, the Owl can see at night and the Ravens and Hawks can’t; they don’t even know it’s approaching because it makes no sounds at all. It sounds right spooky to me so it seems to me.
Songbird (three times): “LISTEN to her!” Then: “LISTEN.”
Alice to Readers (continuing): The Nandays won’t go in the Faerie Dell at night because there’s an Owl there. Owls stake out their trees just like Hawks and Ravens stake out a tree. None of those beings stakes out the same tree as another one of those beings … or is with one of its own kind of beings …
Songbird 1: Listen.
Songbird 2: What did you hear?
Songbird 1: She says Owls are fearrrred.
Songbird 2: What?
Songbird 1: She says they are really scaaaary. She’s scaaared.
Alice to Readers (continuing): … unless they’re paired. Whoa! What’s up with the Songbirds? …
Songbird 1: You don’t really know.
Alice to Songbird: What? Why don’t I know?
Songbird 1 to Alice: Because they aren’t scared.
Alice to Songbird 1: Well, It’s true I really don’t know.
Songbird 1 to Alice: That’s what I just said.
Alice to Songbird 1: That’s just what they told me.
Songbird 1 to Alice: Whyyyy did they say that?
Alice to Songbird 1: It’s not true?
Songbird 1 to Alice: Nooooo!
Alice to Songbird 1: Why is it not true?
Songbird 1 to Alice: It’s because she’s scaaaared.
Alice to Songbird 1: Oh, they very seldom do that?
Songbird 1 to Alice: Yepppp.
Alice to Songbird 1: Oh, good!
Songbird 1 to Alice: Yepppp.
Alice to Songbird 1: Oh, good! … because they’re scared of me. Owls are scaring me, for sure.
Songbird 1 to Alice: Peeeace.
Alice to Songbird 1: Are you sure?
[Songbird vocally repeats a word six times that comforts me. To me the word sounds like “Peace.”
Alice to Readers: In the background other Birds are talking. It’s hard to hear. It’s a little like being in a crowded lunchroom trying to figure out what is being said at just one table.
Songbird 1 to Alice: Peeeace. Peeeace.
Alice to Songbird 1: Nandays are very sensible Birds. I think they know [about Owls].
Songbird 1 to Alice: Peeeace.
Alice to Readers: They Songbirds are having a discussion now, but very quietly.
Songbird 1 to Alice: Peeeace.
Alice to Readers (continuing): I don’t think the camcorder will pick it up. They’re saying um maybe it is true I don’t know maybe maybe it is true. I don’t know. Maybe it is true.
In love, light and joy
This is Alice B. Clagett.
I Am of the Stars … and so are you!
Image: “Owls,” adapted from Image by Brigitte Werner from Pixabay, Pixabay Content License
Image: “Owls,” adapted from Image by Brigitte Werner from Pixabay, Pixabay Content License
INTRODUCTION
VIDEO BY ALICE
SUMMARY OF THE VIDEO
VIDEO CREDITS
INTRODUCTION
Dear Ones,
Here is a nighttime talk on a number of animal topics: The upshot of a Raven congress (bad for me!); how Baby Hawks have been teasing and tricking me; what the grown-up Hawks explained about how Owls hunt Mice; my ideas about how Mice and Rabbits talk; and my ideas about how we might be able to talk with Insects.
There is a Summary after the video …
VIDEO BY ALICE
SUMMARY OF THE VIDEO
What the Ravens Decided ~ How Baby Hawks Tricked Me! ~ How Owls Hunt ~ How Mice and Rabbits Talk ~ How to Talk to Insects (What Will They Say, Anyway?)
by Alice B. Clagett
Hello, Dear Ones. It’s Alice. I Am of the Stars.
You know, there was something of a kerfluffle with the Ravens. They heard about those Ravens that attacked me in the Simi Hills some distance from here and they they had a a convention … a Congress of Ravens … a big one.
Well, it sounded like there was a great deal of talking going on … with not so many Ravens, though … not like a giant number … but they talked and talked all day long.
The conclusion they came to was that it was better to move to an area where people didn’t understand what Ravens were saying. Since then I’ve only seen the spare Raven here and there.
In the meantime I’ve been talking with the Hawks, which for a long time I thought were humans … rather sage and naturally authority figure type of beings.
I thought they were men, but they are both Hawk men and Hawk women.
The Hawk women sound very different, as with Ravens, but they don’t sound at all like Ravens.
Sometimes the Baby Hawks love to get into really dynamic storytelling about things that I used to take seriously … but really they were just trying to get a rise out of me.
I can’t believe I fell for it all those years. But now I know it’s just the Baby Hawks having a wonderful time trying to frighten me. They have to do that to get their fighting Spirit together for the future days, because one day they’ll leave the nest and it’ll be up to them to to go hunting for food. In the meantime they’re building up their fighting spirit. Their parents do that too, very very carefully.
I was talking to a Male Hawk just now about the Owls ,,, which we hadn’t discussed much before. The Owls come out at night. [I am filming this video at night.]
The Hawk mentioned something very interesting. He said that the Owls imitate Mice, and that’s how they catch their Mice. I asked: How did they do that? … or else the Hawk explained without my asking, perhaps .. that they do that subsonically.
That led me to posit that Mice and, say, Rabbits, and other prey type animals low on the food chain … mammals that are low on the food chain … may not be as silent as we think. It could be that they’re vocalizing subsonically … meaning that we can’t hear it … and then that the Owls are also vocalizing subsonically.
I got to wondering whether other beings, such as Insects, might be vocalizing supersonically, say, because of their itsy vocal cords or what passes for vocal cords. I sure hope I have a chance to look into that and try to figure it out. Doesn’t it sound like an amazing field?
Well, That’s all for now.
God bless you all,
And keep you safe,
And be with you
Through all your days.
In love, light and joy
This is Alice B. Clagett.
I Am of the Stars … and so are you!
“What the Ravens Decided ~ How Baby Hawks Tricked Me! ~ How Owls Hunt ~ How Mice and Rabbits Talk ~ How to Talk to Insects (What Will They Say, Anyway?)”
by Alice B. Clagett
Filmed on 15 May 2024 and produced on 19 May 2024
Location: San Fernando Valley, CA
CC BY-SA 4.0 International
Filmed on 15 May 2024 and published on 19 May 2024; transcribed on 6 January 2026; youtube transcription has been edited
The above image markup has been added here … Link: “Tiny Anthologies: Image Markups 19,” by Alice B. Clagett, compiled and published on 7 and 8 January 2026 … https://wp.me/p2Rkym-FH9 ..
VIDEO CREDITS
“What the Ravens Decided ~ How Baby Hawks Tricked Me! ~ How Owls Hunt ~ How Mice and Rabbits Talk ~ How to Talk to Insects (What Will They Say, Anyway?)”
by Alice B. Clagett
Filmed on 15 May 2024 and produced on 19 May 2024
Location: San Fernando Valley, CA
CC BY-SA 4.0 International
