December 17 and 18, plus snowy owl

[asakiyume]

A snowstorm is expected today, so yesterday I only felt like doing something kind of perfunctory, so I did these very standard Christmas bells.



But then this morning I woke up and ... no snow. No snow expected until after noon. Well, I couldn't do *two* perfunctory pictures, so I did one I'd been saving up: a blue jay.



And here, unrelated to the Advent calendar, is a sweet photo from the Daily Hampshire Gazette, a local paper: a snowy owl ^_^ What an armful!

Comments

[cmcmck]

Gorgeous owl!

[osprey_archer]

The bells are so festive! I love the jaunty ribbon and the yellow patterns on the red bells.

The blue jay looks so cheerful, too. There's something ineluctably Christmassy about birds, isn't there?

[lilysea]

Snowy owl! ^_^

[sonia]

That owl looks like it's had a hard day and is contented to be resting in the rescuer's arms. Which is not something I would have imagined owls would do! Now I want a story about a cuddly owl!

Ring, bells! The jay looks like it's going to defend its peanut against all comers!

[sovay]

Well, I couldn't do *two* perfunctory pictures, so I did one I'd been saving up: a blue jay.

That's a very good jay!

Nice owl, too.

[mallorys_camera]

That is one dignified-looking owl.

[pameladean]

The bells are very festive, though! And the blue jay is just great. They have been yelling over my yard for the past few days. I should get it together and get them some dehydrated caterpillars.

The owl is beautiful, but the first thing I saw when I glanced at that image was the BARE HAND of the person holding it. I mean, probably the people who rescued it don't regularly handle owls, but it must be either quite hurt or very mellow.

P.

[sartorias]

Lovely jay!

[anna_wing]

The bells are gorgeous, I love the colours.

I attended one of those Falconry Experience days once at the local zoo, with various raptors, from an African Secretary Bird (having one on my arm was definitely An Experience) to a Black Vulture, and the keepers/falconers told me that owls are actually the least intelligent of all the raptors they work with, because all they do is sit there and wait for a mouse to come along, and then eat it (something along those lines, anyway). The most intelligent by far are apparently vultures, but obviously that's not much use to anyone trying to actively hunt using them...

[gale_storm]

Love the blue jay!! And yay for the owl — lucky it won’t be waiting for adoption, along with others of its species!! Hee!!

[amaebi]

Your bells do not look perfunctory.

Love owl.

Want snow.

[zdenka]

All your Advent calendar pictures have been so beautiful and fun! That's a great bluejay.

What a beautiful owl! I hope it recovers well.

[queenoftheskies]

Your Advent calendar is so beautiful.

[khiemtran]

These are so wonderful!

[athenais]

I long to see a snowy owl in the wild. I live in the wrong place for that, though.