A recent post on Birdchick’s blog about people mistaking a fake owl for the real thing reminded me of the time it happened to me.
I was 8 months pregnant with Clare and sound asleep one night. Suddenly, my husband, who’d been out taking a walk in the neighborhood rushed into the bedroom and woke me up to tell me an owl was perched on a neighbor’s fence.
I got up, got semi-dressed and waddled up the street and down the neighbor’s driveway only to see it was a fake owl.
It took a while to convince Dean, but when he could almost touch it, he believed me.
I was not kind about it — although I should have been. After all — he thought he had something special to show me.
Not much later, we did see a Great Eared Owl in a tree in a yard behind our house. So, it could have been the real thing. But it wasn’t.
Clutch Cargo Lips 
That’s funny (although perhaps only after one has had a good sleep).
We have an influx of starving snowy owls in this area. Apparently, they’re coming down from the North because they can’t find food there. I haven’t seen one yet, but the woman who runs a bird sanctuary in this area is getting a lot of calls about them.
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Interesting … we don’t see many owls here at the beach in So Cal.
Hugs and blessings,
happily retired gal’s last blog post..Haiku Sky Watch Friday
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Helen — I heard that was going on — and we’re getting them too. There’s a Snowy Owl at Assateague that’s causing a buzz among Maryland Birders. Here are some photos one birder took of it.
http://sarahanderson.smugmug.com/gallery/6526975_fLVQJ#432910456_dBb82
Storyteller — Read my next post.
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I am beyond jealous of snowy owl sitings.
And at Assateague? That used to be one of my favorite haunts!
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