If this ends in 'unfortunately we had to shoot it' I'm coming straight down to Middlesbrough to open up a whole can of owly woo-woop ass!
Lookit that face! I loves him.
Excellent . . EXcellent!!
*evil laughter*
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I once had a cat who killed a blue jay baby. Mama blue jay pursued him with a vengeance. She left my other cats alone, but every time he went outside, she'd swoop and try to peck his eyes. He got in the habit of walking with one side pressed against the house.
Until mama blue jay mysteriously turned up dead on the porch...
the bird's a teetotowler.
*checks recent comments, bonks head on Medusa's pun*
Ow!
t00wit - t00w00t!
MonkeyOwlFilter: open up a whole can of owly woo-woop ass!
Ooooooh, and owls, they be the the bestest!
I had a pygmy owl for a while. Hit our window one winter, and we took it in (Dad was a biologist and bird nut, so we do that sort of thing right). Lived about 2 weeks before his internal injuries got him. Cute, intelligent, and friendly. Wonderful creatures.
What a lovely little critter, Weezel-- I'm so jealous! Owls in the Family was one of my favorite books growing up. Somehow owning a budgie didn't quite cut it after reading about Wol and Weeps.
MonkeyFilter: Cute, intelligent, and friendly. Wonderful creatures.
Ahhhh, the squee!
Q. What goes OOOOHW?
A. An owl with his head turned around
Q. What does an owl need for his bath?
A. A t-owl
I've got a great witty joke about owls. I don't know on whom to inflict it.
To-whit, to-whoo?
Ok, owl be serious.
A Barred Owl
Richard Wilbur
The warping night air having brought the boom
Of an owl's voice into her darkened room,
We tell the wakened child that all she heard
Was an odd question from a forest bird,
Asking of us, if rightly listened to,
"Who cooks for you?" and then "Who cooks for you?"
Words, which can make our terrors bravely clear,
Can also thus domesticate a fear,
And send a small child back to sleep at night
Not listening for the sound of stealthy flight
Or dreaming of some small thing in a claw
Borne up to some dark branch and eaten raw.
Owl go now.
I once found an owl road kill and stripped off it's wings. Proud trophy. But then I had to get rid of it because it was said that owls were bad luck. So I set it on a dumpster at a McDonald's. Years later I was told that the place went out of business thereafter. So there. Don't mess with owls!
owl play
in shadow pouncer's
nibble nip
we may behold
His Owlship
The Owl
Ted Hughes
I saw my world again through your eyes
As I would see it again through your children's eyes.
Through your eyes it was foreign.
Plain hedge hawthorns were peculiar aliens,
A mystery of peculiar lore and doings.
Anything wild, on legs, in your eyes
Emerged at a point of exclamation
As if it had appeared to dinner guests
In the middle of the table. Common mallards
Were artefacts of some unearthliness,
Their wooings were a hypnagogic film
Unreeled by the river. Impossible
To comprehend the comfort of their feet
In the freezing water. You were a camera
Recording reflections you could not fathom.
I made my world perform its utmost for you.
You took it all in with an incredulous joy
Like a mother handed her new baby
By the midwife. Your frenzy made me giddy.
It woke up my dumb, ecstatic boyhood
Of fifteen years before. My masterpiece
Came that black night on the Grantchester road.
I sucked the throaty thin woe of a rabbit
Out of my wetted knuckle, by a copse
Where a tawny owl was enquiring.
Suddenly it swooped up, splaying its pinions
Into my face, taking me for a post.
That is downright strange! Good for the kat and the owley!
I first thought the kat was attacking the swooping owl, then realized that he was trying to catch the jesses dangling from the owl's legs. Good kitteh!
MonkeyOwlFilter: open up a whole can of owly woo-woop ass!hollow trees or dense vegetationcubicles and emerge at dusk to startfeedingposting.ly,not.