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

[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.

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[asakiyume]

Yeah, like lilysea said, Owls are pretty much made of knives, so!

... I hope they're able to heal her. A FB acquaintance rescued an injured eagle earlier in the year, but it didn't make it. I hope this owl makes it.

[pameladean]

Oh, that's so heartbreaking. Of course it's part of rescuing animals, or anybody else: not every one makes it. I hope the owl does too.

P.