These magnificent birds were on show in the High Street, helping raise money for The Barn Owl Centre. The charity, based on the edge of Gloucester, has the following aim - "To advance public education in Owl & Raptor welfare & husbandry."
The first owl is a Long Eared Owl, the second photo shows a Little Owl (original!) and the last owl is the most common in the UK, the Barn Owl.
The owl is a magnificently handsome bird of prey. Below are some interesting Owl Facts to impressive your friends and family with -
- Owls belong to the Order Strigiformes, which contains over 200 different species.
- Owls are nocturnal and hunt small mammals, small birds and some hunt fish.
- Their eyes are fixed in the sockets. They rotate their head 270 degrees to see back over there shoulders.
- Many breeds have special flight feathers for silent flying.
- They are long sighted and use feathers similar to whiskers to sense the prey in their beaks.
- The largest owl has a wing span of 2 meters.
- The Twit Twoo sound they make is actually Ke-wick Hoo-hoo-oooo.
14 comments:
Beautiful shots. That top one is magnificent! Look at those eyes.
What fantastic photos Marley - they should be paying you for the publicity!
wow Marley, they are gorgeous!
Owls are SO beautiful and so are your photographs.
I loved your Rhodes photos and what a great idea to featureWhile Marley's Away. All a great success and super photos,Marley.
What a way to return to your home blog! Such magnificent creatures!!
What a great post about owls! I did some owls when I first started blogging....they are pretty interesting birds......
stunning!
beautiful birds !!!
Twitter ye not! I just adore owls, long before Harry Potter. These are absolutely magnificent captures of magnificent birds.
brilliant captures of magnificent birds!
and they are so soft to touch too - nice birds
I dont think I've seen owls this close before. Brilliant. Shouldn't they have been asleep?
The photos and the birds are incredible. Thanks for sharing such close-ups.
Handsome creatures!
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