I knew she was nesting somewhere nearby. I saw her one midnight as a patch of paleness perched high in a tree behind our house, when I looked out my window. Today as I walked across our yard she swooped by me. I sat in a lawn chair for half an hour, and finally she returned.
Great Horned Owl
After posing high up in a poplar for a few minutes, she flew by me again. I remember wondering at the stick she held in her claws. It was only as I looked at the photos on my computer tonight that I realized that was no stick she flew over my head with…
Great Horned Owl
I have Ophidiophobia. Snake phobia. I sit here at my computer and shudder, and want to lift my feet off the floor, every time I look at these photos or think of how she flew over me with that!
Amazing. So great to visit Manitoba through your pictures.
My pleasure. And that’s what I have in mind: photos for people who have never seen Manitoba, people who have left, and people who live here but don’t have the opportunity to walk in the woods as often as they would like to.
When I see the pictures, I want to be there. Again. 🙂
That’s a good owl…killing snakes so you don’t have to face them…
I’d rather not have visual proof. Yuk.