Baby Owls!
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lydamorehouseToday, Mason and I went out birding again with the Audbon folks. This time we went to Roberts Bird Sanctuary in Minneapolis (not far, actually, from where I used to live in Uptown.) Of course, this was the one time I decided to leave our camera at home.
We saw two baby great horned owls. Apparently, all the local birders already knew about the owl nest that was just off the dirt trail, because as soon as we arrived there was talk of "do you think we'll see the owlets?" We did. They'd even ventured out of the nest to blink warily at the world. They were SUPER cute.
In fact, they looked A LOT like this:
Mama owl was watching (actually, we caught her "cat napping" -- though I suppose it was owl napping) in a nearby tree.
We also saw a bunch of warblers and another redstart (which is probably one of my new favorites.)
The rest of the day was spent frantically trying to rescue my laptop from a VERY intrusive spyware invasion. I was able to do it, thanks, in part, to the fact that I had another computer (with dial-up connection) from which to read the instructions on how to delete various registry bits. Evil spyware! Anyway, I downloaded Stopzilla to help keep this crap at bay, and I think I'm fairly clean finally. Sigh.
Some days I wish I were Mouse.
We saw two baby great horned owls. Apparently, all the local birders already knew about the owl nest that was just off the dirt trail, because as soon as we arrived there was talk of "do you think we'll see the owlets?" We did. They'd even ventured out of the nest to blink warily at the world. They were SUPER cute.
In fact, they looked A LOT like this:
Mama owl was watching (actually, we caught her "cat napping" -- though I suppose it was owl napping) in a nearby tree.
We also saw a bunch of warblers and another redstart (which is probably one of my new favorites.)
The rest of the day was spent frantically trying to rescue my laptop from a VERY intrusive spyware invasion. I was able to do it, thanks, in part, to the fact that I had another computer (with dial-up connection) from which to read the instructions on how to delete various registry bits. Evil spyware! Anyway, I downloaded Stopzilla to help keep this crap at bay, and I think I'm fairly clean finally. Sigh.
Some days I wish I were Mouse.
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Date: 2011-05-14 08:33 am (UTC)Also the baby owls - so cute. I visited a bird sanctuary a few years back that had a baby tawny owl that was being hand-reared. So adorable.
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Date: 2011-05-14 04:38 pm (UTC)It was so deeply annoying that it was obviously not a real program, you know? Plus, if I clicked "ignore" it would only let me do that for about five minutes.