Birds of prey

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About 20 years ago, we were at Quebec city’s famous “Carnaval”. While there we bought a nice print of a snowy owl flying out of a stand of spruce trees. On the way back home, a snowy owl flew out of a stand of spruce trees, gliding about 20 feet from our windshield. Absolutely beautiful.

And Astro, I hate to keep on correcting you but the owl might be a Pygmy Owl and not a Saw-Whet Owl. Google search for images or check the following sites:

http://www.owling.com/pygmy10.htm
http://www.owling.com/saw-whet7.htm

My “Birds of Canada” book (Godfrey’s) has an illustration of the pygmy owl that is almost identical to your pic in the way the bird is positioned.

Still in the birding world, I like this story:

http://www.birds.cornell.edu/ivory/rediscovery/

This thread kinda re-ignited my long lost interest in birding. Long ago, I was pretty good at identifying birds and plants.

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We almost ran over that sucker a few weeks ago as we came around the turn. At first we thought it was a cat until we saw it hopping away.

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I hit a squirrel on the way to work a few days ago (yeah, the whole two blocks that I live away from work)… at least, I keep telling myself it was a squirrel, because then I don’t have to live with myself after hitting someone’s cat.

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And that folks, is why I keep my cats indoors. If you walk along the landslide trail to rushbrook the B Eagles are almost like seagulls…tons of them flying around. It makes me worry for people with teeny tiny dogs.

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Like those bitter old women with bazillions of cats. And I’m speaking in metric bazillions.

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I measure cat ownership in cubic volume Eso. If you had a flower bed, I’d send over a couple hundred to poop in it.