tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11205826.post112664490120620376..comments2023-06-25T08:14:04.091-04:00Comments on Brad and Claire: I go to a Hootenanny.Bradhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17248248999320718608noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11205826.post-1126906478949513202005-09-16T17:34:00.000-04:002005-09-16T17:34:00.000-04:00I went to a nature learning center once for school...I went to a nature learning center once for school and we actually got to disect some owl pellets! <BR/><BR/>I have to agree with the others, that owls are very cool.TripleNinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02426982302170316791noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11205826.post-1126767453281295512005-09-15T02:57:00.000-04:002005-09-15T02:57:00.000-04:00Owls are so cool, and when we lived at this one ho...Owls are so cool, and when we lived at this one house in California with a decent amount of property, we had owls living in a huge oak tree. And we'd find those curious owl pellets on the ground with mice bones and such. Fascinating! Okay, how many words am I supposed to find from "RFXAAUH," Claire? =)Loreohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15262185702248035079noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11205826.post-1126736240480133502005-09-14T18:17:00.000-04:002005-09-14T18:17:00.000-04:00Ethan is petrified of owls--dont know why...Ethan is petrified of owls--dont know why...ljmhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17636461842297063133noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11205826.post-1126673131902657692005-09-14T00:45:00.000-04:002005-09-14T00:45:00.000-04:00OWLS!!!Some years ago I worked at a medical equipm...OWLS!!!<BR/><BR/>Some years ago I worked at a medical equipment manufacturer on the north side of Concord. Just over the back fence was the cemetery where Mettie is buried... also Elsie Gott. There was a line of tall eucalyptus trees along the fence, and several families of barn owls lived in them.<BR/><BR/>We had several Vietnamese technicians working in the test cells, just a few feet away from that fence.... and culturally they seem to have this thing about owls and cemeteries. They all put a brave front on and wouild deny any superstition, but they all seemed to take care to be on the way home before the sun set. Day shift only.<BR/><BR/>Once I saw a huge, ragged, shambly shape swoop out of a weeping willow tree, near the employee's entrance as I walked to my car. It was just dusk. It perched on a light pole at the edge of the parking lot. With binoculars I identified it as the biggest horned owl I'd ever seen. He'd been sleeping all day in that huge willow tree, as hundreds of people came and went, direcly below. After a bit he winged away, toward the open fields between us and the refinery to the north. He was on his commute to work.<BR/><BR/>Another time, well after dark, I stopped and walked into a nearby dry grass field, looking toward the refinery just a half mile away. There was in "event" going on and they had the flares going. Very noisy. I was slightly rustling the grass at my feet, and suddenly this barn owl was in my face, not three feet away. It looked at me like, what the (blank) are you doing here?! Pretty startling at that distance, for both of us.<BR/><BR/>Talk about agility... that bird "turned on a dime" in midair and was gone in another instant. I realized afterward that it had been hunting rodents, and the rustling in the grass had attracted him. Even with the roar of the refinery so loud and so close.<BR/><BR/>Marvelous animals.grickerdhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00882747816888557603noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11205826.post-1126655372478614232005-09-13T19:49:00.000-04:002005-09-13T19:49:00.000-04:00Good luck Claire! Keep up the courage and all that...Good luck Claire! Keep up the courage and all that :) Hehehehe...Bookerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15889198370808653959noreply@blogger.com