A Crazy-Huge One...

Lifted from Flickr (credit: gazasal ).

Two White Owls, Taken in Silver Lake 10/09/11

A scary one!!!

From the new issue of art magazine JUXTAPOZ in their profile on the East Bay artist known as 'SWAMPY', whose work I've happened upon on the street since moving to this area. Neat!

Everybody Wants To Go To Heaven

Acrylic, pencil and ink

14" x 20"

2011

-from Juxtapoz July 11 n126

Office Owl

From February 9th, when I ran out of coffee:

The Laughing Owl

They say it's extinct, but I know better. I'm going to see one, mark my words. I just have to get back to New Zealand. It will happen.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laughing_Owl

The call of the Laughing Owl has been described as "a loud cry made up of a series of dismal shrieks frequently repeated". The species was given its name because of this sound. Other descriptions of the call were: "A peculiar barking noise ... just like the barking of a young dog"; "Precisely the same as two men "cooeying" to each other from a distance"; "A melancholy hooting note", or a high-pitched chattering, only heard when the birds were on the wing and generally on dark and drizzly nights or immediately preceding rain. Various whistling, chuckling and mewing notes were observed from a captive bird.

Buller (1905) mentions the testimony of a correspondent who claimed that Laughing Owls would be attracted by accordion play. Given that recorded vocalizations are an effective means to attract owls, and given the similarity of a distant accordion's tune to the call of the Laughing Owl as reported, it is apparent that the method might have worked.

Looks like I will have to learn the accordion before I do. I'll get on that immediately.

;W

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Discuss.

Whooooooo's The Sheriff??

This guy's the sheriff:



Taken in Eureka, Nevada.