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

[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...

[asakiyume]

That sounds like a great experience! There's a falconer in this area who will do an introduction to hawks for you, and two of my kids did it--it was great. (Only one kind of hawk, though.)

I'm laughing at the thought of having a vulture as your hunter.

Vulture: Here's some prime carrion, boss.

Boss: Eww, carrion.

Vulture: *very dejected*