Thursday, June 26, 2008

I show you more birds?

Well I hope you'll like to see some more :)
Tolkien the African Owl, had sneakily eaten half a rabbit before we arrived so he wasn't that bothered about his tempting snacks. He was persuaded to fly a couple of times but spent most of our time sitting on posts and gauntlets, squawking and chirruping endearingly. Owls seem to be amazingly chatty birds :)
Not that he was refusing any nibbles mind. Just wasn't going to perform for them :)
Chestnut the Tawny Owl wasn't required to fly but just to pose with his heart shaped face enchantingly framed in the Ivy.
And on Brenda's hand. He did this admirably. Cute or what ?
After this I forgot most of their names. The Barn Owl may have been posing or he may have been wondering if that hinge had always been there.
Occasionally he considered leaving but forgot that he was tethered to Ivan (kindly hiding inside the shepherd's hut so that we could take photos of the owl apparently all alone in his natural habitat)
And eventually he decided we'd had enough of him :)

I have become an Owl worshipper :)

7 comments:

At 4:05 AM, Blogger Sorrow said...

These are wonderful! i have always adored owls! We have a screech that lives in our woods, and you can here him chatting it up with his babe sometimes late at night.
These are so terrific!I love the last one bestest of all!
More bird pictures ? please?

 
At 5:13 AM, Blogger Mel said...

HOLY buckets!
That's one BIG owl!

Wow......but what a beautiful creature.

And the little fella is just too cute.

Gosh....what an awesome birthday prezzie you were gifted with.
And how awesome that we get gifted in turn.

Thank you, thank you, thank you!

Did they hoot and everything?

 
At 8:17 AM, Blogger I, Like The View said...

beautiful! how handsome! elegant!

and I'm with mel: thank you for sharing the gift with us!

:-)

 
At 12:26 PM, Blogger mig bardsley said...

We have two or three kinds of owls around here Sorrow. Like you, I hear them chatting and calling all night. It was so wonderful to actually see what they are like :)

He was some sort of African Owl Mel - I think he may be a Spotted Eagle Owl but I'm not sure. We didn't get a hoot out of any of them but a lot of slightly querulous chattering and chirruping.

It' always a joy to share with you I and with all of you. (Halve a burden, double a pleasure :)

 
At 4:40 PM, Blogger Betty F said...

I've never even seen a picture of an owl that big! Beautiful pictures! Just beautiful!
Thank you

 
At 4:41 PM, Blogger Betty F said...

I've never even seen a picture of an owl that big! Beautiful pictures! Just beautiful!
Thank you

 
At 8:11 PM, Blogger mig bardsley said...

Double the pleasure Betty :)

He is big isn't he :) And fluffy :)

 

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