WINNER: ELF OWL 47-27
The matchup many of you have been waiting for!
The Elf Owl is a sparrow sized owl of the Southwest US and Mexico and Baja. It loves to live in woodpecker holes in giant desert cacti. It has trademark white eyebrows, sure to get your attention. Don’t try to hold it though, when grabbed, it will play dead in an attempt to escape! These tiny owls are bug hunters, and love to eat scorpions, where they remove to stinger before swallowing them. Will this tiny owl be able to take on its challenger today?
The Powerful Owl is the largest of the Australian owls. It dominated the eastern coast forests where it eats a variety of medium sized marsupials like gliders and possums. The Powerful Owl is known for taking prey much larger in relation to its own size than almost any other raptor. It can also catch the largest bat, the Flying Fox. Will this giant defeat the tiny Elf?
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Man we really called an owl “Powerful Owl”? That guy gets my vote lol. Nice to see you’re still posting so much cool content here btw
I think it fits right in with a proper tough “Outback” attitude, especially if we go by the Powerful Boobook naming. Gotta play up that Aussie lingo!
I’m glad you all keep coming back for more every day and letting me know you enjoy it. It’s really a highlight of my day and I’d miss checking in with you guys otherwise. I like researching things and taking about it, but I’m typically a little on the quiet side and I don’t think many people I know are interested in the kinds of things I like to learn, it at least not to discuss them to the extent I want to, so I’m glad you guys are here. It is me exercise a part of myself I don’t normally get to share.
I can understand that. This is definitely the kind of community where we (the people in it) can feel more comfortable sharing the stuff we’re interested in. For example, I would never feel comfortable posting a story or a piece of artwork I made on a big network like reddit, but I would feel better about posting here cause it’s a smaller yet closer community. And I definitely have stuff that I don’t share with my irl friends but I would share with my online friends, and vice versa. I definitely understand what you mean. I’m happy that we’ve got Lemmy and this community here.
I always really liked the wooden fish on the wall of the apartment in the Steins;Gate anime that they used to hold their mail. The derpy fish face always made me smile whenever I saw it in the background.
I thought about that fish for years. One day this summer I was looking at a piece of scrap 1x4 laying around, and I said even though this is way too small to make an actual copy, I didn’t expect it to turn out great anyway, so over the next few days I whittled that board down into that fish using just my favorite pocketknife and a scrap of sandpaper.
It’s not perfect, it’s not even finished still, I can’t decide to paint it or stain it, but now it sits on my mantle and I get to see it every day, and it makes me smile thinking if a story I really loved and the effort I put into doing something to make myself happy.
It’s nothing compared to the woodworking stuff on Reddit. I can do pretty fancy stuff, I built furniture and such in school, but I live in a condo and can’t have table saws and lathes and all that, but I can still do something. And like you says, I wouldn’t “bother” Reddit with this, but this place is small and it’s late in the thread anyway, so probably a dozen people will see this, but this is the real me sharing something with you guys who come to listen to what I have to show you every day that I felt you may think is maybe interesting. So here’s my not quite finished palm sized mini fish mail holder replica.
I love it. That is a very awesome fish! You really captured its spirit.
Thank you! It did go better than it expected, with just that one chip it off the eye when I was carving the relief, but I glued it back in ok. It makes me smile, so it stress its job! 😁