Stumpy
22nd July 2018
Is it possible to have jet lag having been on holiday less than thirty miles from home? The after effects of 3 weeks of very early morning starts and late nights out with the camera, plus the walking of two, very,keen labradors twice a day, feels very similar to jet lag to me.
The evenings gave me a chance to try and get up close to some Little Owls who favoured an old tree stump. One would turn up regularly most evenings, but most often immediately after I had given up on it making an appearance and had gone indoors.
However, I did get lucky for a couple of evenings and managed to get an adult sitting serenely in some wonderful sun down light plus a juvenile, going through that difficult transition of growing it's first full coverage of feathers through the baby down.
Entitling this blog Stumpy, could therefore refer to the tree stump perch or indeed the new, stumpy, little feathers. I wouldn't dream of using the term to describe the rather delightfully, round, shape of a well, fed Little Owl!
The following photos may well demonstrate how offended a Little Owl may be with such an outrageous suggestion as being thought of as Stumpy!
The evenings gave me a chance to try and get up close to some Little Owls who favoured an old tree stump. One would turn up regularly most evenings, but most often immediately after I had given up on it making an appearance and had gone indoors.
However, I did get lucky for a couple of evenings and managed to get an adult sitting serenely in some wonderful sun down light plus a juvenile, going through that difficult transition of growing it's first full coverage of feathers through the baby down.
Entitling this blog Stumpy, could therefore refer to the tree stump perch or indeed the new, stumpy, little feathers. I wouldn't dream of using the term to describe the rather delightfully, round, shape of a well, fed Little Owl!
The following photos may well demonstrate how offended a Little Owl may be with such an outrageous suggestion as being thought of as Stumpy!