From Bert Minor
This isn’t a particularly great photo. Everything happened quickly, and I had little time to adjust the camera settings. I was taking photos of the Barred Owl on a tree and after a half hour or so it swooped down and right past me and landed on a tree thirty feet behind me.
I didn’t know what was happening at first, but then I saw this squirrel on the tree and the Owl was going nuts chasing this poor guy round and round the trunk up and down the tree. It’s not every day you get to witness an Owl on the prowl. They don’t usually hunt during the day.
There was a happy ending for the squirrel. It managed to get away. Too bad I was flustered. I could have got an amazing, rare capture. Still–it was a thrill.
Be careful! Remember what happened to Squirrel Nutkin!
Oh my god I forgot about those books. I loved them as a little kid.
Old Brown was very patient with him, and frankly, let him off easy!
He lost his tail!
But the squirrels still got to take all their food from the island, and Nutkin did not himself become a tribute to Old Brown!