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Sunday, May 04, 2008
For Nick
We went to visit the Owl and Hawk families tonight. They put on a great show.
Dad
Mom
Notice that there's a western tanager on a branch below mom. It was an amazing deep, deep orange (looks kind of red in this photo). It was also very noisy and we wondered if, at some point, mom was going to decide it would make a nice appetizer.
The kids
Kind of blurry, but we were losing light and didn't have a tripod. You can see all three babies here. After visiting the Hawk family, I walked back to the Owl nest just in time to see two of the babies munching on a little dinner. It didn't take them long to gulp it down and turn to watch me.
Our neighbor, Jonathan, came with us tonight and brought along his huge, powerful telescope. Through that scope I saw a baby owl so close up that I could see inside the little nostrils on his beak. And even though the hawk nest is really high, I could look right into the eye of a baby in the nest.
Miracles all of it. Truly miracles.
Dad
MomNotice that there's a western tanager on a branch below mom. It was an amazing deep, deep orange (looks kind of red in this photo). It was also very noisy and we wondered if, at some point, mom was going to decide it would make a nice appetizer.
The kidsKind of blurry, but we were losing light and didn't have a tripod. You can see all three babies here. After visiting the Hawk family, I walked back to the Owl nest just in time to see two of the babies munching on a little dinner. It didn't take them long to gulp it down and turn to watch me.
Our neighbor, Jonathan, came with us tonight and brought along his huge, powerful telescope. Through that scope I saw a baby owl so close up that I could see inside the little nostrils on his beak. And even though the hawk nest is really high, I could look right into the eye of a baby in the nest.
Miracles all of it. Truly miracles.
One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
posted by Carol at 9:47 PM
11 Comments:
They really are amazing creatures. :)
Wow!
Indigo and Mary,
I wish you could both come visit these families with me!
Wonderful!!!!!! Wonderful!!!!!!!!!! Wonderful!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I would so love to see a "baby owl so close up that I could see inside the little nostrils on his beak!"
I wish you could too, Nick!
Until you come out here so I can show you, I guess you'll have to settle for Alex nostrils. ;-)
Another driving trip west would be wonderful for me. Perhaps it's in the distant future if my health continues to improve.
I hope your health DOES continue to improve!
Owls have babies every year, so we'll find some whenever you find your way here!
Carol, you are right. It's all miracles, and you are quite the miracle-observer.
The Shakespeare quote is just perfect too.
Your blog lives up to its name. It's a beautiful peaceful place to linger and breathe in the beauty.
Awwww, San. Thanks!
Funny. I didn't start this blog in order to talk about the peace of owls.
But this is where life has taken me.
For today, anyway...
Thanks for lingering and breathing with me, San!
What a lovely post Carol.. amazing Micacles
Thanks Angel!
Yes. Amazing...
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