Rubi
From the Scottish Owl Centre
Behind the scenes pics of some of the birds on today’s photo workshop with Dean Bricknell; Tony the Tawny loves these adventures into the woods; Mac the Short-eared Owl always looked ready to go-go-go; Rubi the newbie White Faced Owl and new kid Aspen the Tengmalm’s (or Boreal) Owl made their workshop debuts.
Oh, it is much fun. It last 2 weeks, plus last year we did a small qualifying round to fill out the bracket, and you all get to participate every day.
Basically, I make a bracket, and every day we have 2 rounds, Owl A vs Owl B, and Owl X vs Owl Y. Each owl gets a set of photos and a blurb showcasing why they are most awesome, and whichever gets the most upvotes in approx 24 hours wins the match. People will promote their choices in the comments and sometimes try to rally others to their side. It gets modestly competitive, everyone gets to learn some great facts about owls they might not have known existed, and people really seem to enjoy it.
Here is the ongoing post we had for last year, and it has the completed bracket and some vote counts if you want to see how it worked.
I love so much everything about this. Thank you
This year’s contest will kick off with another qualifier to eliminate some of the duds from the last bracket near mid-November.
We do have a lot of fun here. I get a number of people that say they don’t even really like owls that become regulars. Even I just had a modest interest when I started posting, and now I have over 1500 posts and I’m always doing more research because they are such fascinating animals.
I get it. I will 100% fly out to be a part of a Superb Owl party, and not just because I hear good things about the bean dip and the chicken wings.