Photo by Joshua Wiley
The other week, when I was in Utah, I visited a very famous park. It was hot, really hot. This park had a gift shop, but the gift shop was just a garage bay, without air-conditioning, in one of the headquarters support buildings.
When I visited, I asked a very nice but very hot lady, who was manning the gift shop, if she knew of any good locations for Burrowing Owls, (Athene cunicularia). Unsolicited, she explained that there were actually three Great Horned Owls (Bubo virginianus) roosting during the day in a hay barn around the corner. (The hay is for feeding Bison and Pronghorn in winter.)
Very excitedly, I went and paid a brief and respectful visit to these avatars of Athena. Two of the owls were awake and active. A third was tucked against a wall and sleeping. To me, getting close to such big, beautiful owls in good light was very special. I hope, though, that they are not often disturbed by eager birders or scheming photogs.
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The equivalent of ಠ_ಠ or 😑
It is amazing the amount of expression we can read in a face that basically has a fixed mouth and eyes that can’t move!
Hay there buddy! I hope everything’s going Great! Anyways, don’t want to be a Horn in your side so Owl let you get on with it. It’s been a Hoot meeting you!
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Hay hay hay.
All the owls say hay baby, hay baby, hay!
