From the International Owl Center

Bea the Burrowing Owl enjoying a shower in today’s heat. She takes dust baths and drinks out of her water bowls, but doesn’t take water baths. She loves showers though! She how she exposes the skin on her back, likely to help cool off.

I don’t think we’ve had a puffed up Burrow Owl before. It’s amazing how big they can look!

She’s getting spritzed from a spray bottle, so you can’t really see the water in the screen caps,or even very much in the original video. I just thought she looked neat all puffed up.