Crepuscular Coffee Break
I went to school for art, and even though I'm so glad I ended up as a homesteader and not a painter struggling to keep my soul alive in the city, I still love making images.
When I lived in Ohio, I taught environmental education and often found myself leading birding hikes, introducing folks to their native birds. I often made dopey birding jokes to myself, but since my hikes were introductory, I realized it would be silly to share most of them. Instead, I turned them into cheesy paintings!
Here, I have the eight most common Ohio owls, enjoying a bit of crepuscular refreshment before a night of hunting. Is anyone out there enough of a bird nerd to be able to identify each one?
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I know exactly one. The great Snowy Owl on the far right. Not very up on my owls, lol.
Thanks for your comment! And yes, you've got a female snowy owl there (which I've only seen once in the wild, but it was SUPER COOL). Like I said, I had to know all these owls for my job--it was a delight to introduce folks to animals they didn't even realize were native! I'll post the rest of the owls as an edit in about a week, if you're interested. :)
I am interested! Thank you!
Starting on the left and going counter-clockwise, they are the following: Long eared owl (the one with a rabbit on its cup), barn owl, great horned owl (the one with a ? on its cup), short-eared owl (the one with a mouse on the cup), the little one on the highest branch is a saw-whet owl, the two similar ones on the next branch are the gray and red forms of the screech owl, there's the snowy owl, of course, and finally, the barred owl cooking (it's call sounds like, "who cooks for you?). Amazing creatures! I've never seen the saw-whet owl in the wild (it's the size of a robin), but I've caught glimpses of the rest when I worked in the National Park in Ohio. So beautiful!
Thank you, I love owls, but never have looked up their names. They are such amazing creatures!
Great job though!