Drove out to the country to see the Snowy Owl at an event today since they are not very common here.
Something else caught my eye though and I kept telling myself that it couldn’t be what it looked like. But it was!
It must have not been advertised cuz most people wouldn’t know what it was, but it was an Australian Boobook named Fable!
So when I saw they were letting people hold him for a donation, in couldn’t say no!
More pics to come, they had a lot of great birds I didn’t rxpect. I’ll try to get the photos for tomorrow, but this was exciting so I shared it now before I head back home.
I would imagine performing for others’ amusement can’t get pretty tiresome quickly, for humans let alone animals. I’m glad you enjoyed it.
All I knew going in was the Snowy was promised to be there all day, so there was a ton of bonus bird content for me!
It was a 4 hour round trip, and I feel it was worth it.
I’m kind of jealous! But glad you enjoyed it. My comment was directed at the disposition of him as you described. Like I wouldn’t want to let go, either. Give me some raw meat, scratch my head, let’s sit in the shade. But of course that’s an anthropomorphized guess.
This little fella would agree with you! 🥰
That is too precious! Thank you for sharing that, it made me unreasonably happy!
It was so great to see in person. They are absolutely as charming and full of personality as they are in the photos! They deserve all their popularity.
Spectre was pretty vocal whenever he spotted active with a treat and he would make noises at the other birds and look like he water to play with them.
Many great faces and expressions every time I looked over at him. I will post more soon.
Do you know if he plays with the other birds routinely? Just curious.
I was honestly surprised they had as many birds as they did out in the area it was at. For being a bunch of predators, some of which would eat each other in the wild, they were all very calm around each other.
The one falcon was trying for a bit to get somewhere, but there wasn’t really much flapping or anything going on like when they get a bit excited or overwhelmed.
I can’t think of any species of raptor I’ve ever seen mixed other than Turkey Vultures and Black Vultures. With domesticated dogs and cats not always able to be around others, even though these animals are human raised, they’re still wild and more volatile than that. With as stringent as licensing is to keep raptors, I’m sure having an incident wouldn’t look great.
That said, Snowy really seemed to be soaking up the attention from human and bird alike!
I guess not. Now I’m curious about the falcon! Something about curiosity killing the cat… But satisfaction bringing it back.
We used to have raptor centers nearby. I’ll have to see if they’re open to the public yet)I believe it’s seasonal) and maybe talk my neighbor into going.