Bag of Bones

Well I hope you're not eating.
But if you are, imagine swallowing the packaging too and coughing it up later because that's what Barn Owls do. These are yummy Barn Owl pellets - regurgitated fur and bone from mice, voles and shrews. We collected these from beneath a nestbox we know is regularly used just outside Newport because we wanted something to point our fantastic USB microscope at. The one opposite is just with the digital camera on macro, but the one below is taken with the microscope. The detail is amazing, just look at those little teeth.
And just to add to the horror, in amongst it all was an insect pupa!