*Fun fact:
There was a mesh fence between the owl and me, so I used manual focus to make it less visible.
#SuperbOwlSunday #Superb_Owl
With your silly sportsball nonsense.
Also screw your hashtag.🦉 ✨
#ruinthesuperbowl #hashitout #hashtaggame #superb_owl #owl
You really got to ask me that?🦉 ✨
#RuinTheSuperBowl
#HashItOut
#HashtagGame
#Superb_Owl #Owl #WhatWeDoInTheShadows
#ruinthesuperbowl #hashitout #hashtaggame #superb_owl #owl #whatwedointheshadows
A day late and a few owls short for #Superb_Owl day, but can't resist posting these juvenile owls who grew up in our back yard this year
Wow! That was a LOT of owls!
There are some I missed, I'm sure--and apologies to any of my followers who were overwhelmed. It'll be quieter here for a bit.
Thanks to everyone who participated in #Superb_Owl Sunday on Mastodon.
So #rihanna announced she has another #egg dropping soon at the #superb_owl? Waow. Major cultural event.
#rihanna #egg #superb_owl #superbowl
#Superb_Owl Sunday article/photo gallery: "Gorgeous 19th-Century Illustrations of Owls and Ospreys" via The Marginalian (formerly Brain Pickings) https://www.themarginalian.org/2015/05/29/lydekker-royal-natural-history-owls/
In-progress pencil sketch of Northern Saw-whet Owl face in time for #SuperbOwl #Superb_Owl
The secret is to think "borb."
Dayum, the #Superb_Owl just got great. Gotta love two good teams going at it like this. No idea how this one ends.
Bonnie and Clyde are definitely #superb_owl material https://www.youtube.com/live/XSbpW9By1bA?feature=share
Whoa man I go upstairs to make something to eat and someone lit the frikkin’ BBQ in KC. End of the #Superb_Owl ought to be great.
So far #SuperbOwl Sunday has been a delight.
Here is the Southern Owl nebula, otherwise known as ESO 378-1, from ESO’s Very Large Telescope in northern Chile.
The Southern Owl is a planetary nebula, the remnant of a dying star like our sun. At the end of its lifetime, the star that made the Southern Owl gently blew off its outer layers, creating this bubble-like nebula of gas and dust.
Credit: ESO
#superbowl #superb_owl #astronomy #nebula
#Superb_Owl Sunday collection:
Superb Owls | Smithsonian Institution
"Superb owls found across our collections of artifacts, artworks, and archives."
https://www.si.edu/spotlight/owls
#Superb_Owl Sunday bling:
Brooch in the form of an owl head, Castellani firm, Rome, c. 1860, gold & agate.
An example of the mid-19th c. European "archaeological jewelry" trend (designs based on excavated examples from antiquity).
Metropolitan Museum of Art New York collection: https://metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/238030
Unfortunately, Aotearoa-NZ lost its most #SuperbOwl. The whēkau, or laughing owl, was more than twice the size of a ruru/morepork.
Less than a century ago, there were still whēkau alive in the South Island. The species is now extinct.
Their distinctive laughing call was described as a “loud cry made up of a series of dismal shrieks frequently repeated.”
https://flic.kr/p/2hwFHYg
https://nzbirdsonline.org.nz/species/laughing-owl
#superbowl #superb_owl #aotearoa #nz #birds #owl
My last #Ottawa #owl for #superb_owl #SuperbOwlSunday is the #LongEaredOwl
9/10
If you notice I am missing the Boreal Owl, you would be correct. Maybe next year?
Quick shot for memory. I couldn't maintain a safe distance.
#ottawa #owl #superb_owl #superbowlsunday #longearedowl
Fox just showed Elon sitting with Rupert Murdock at the #superb_owl and called them some “brilliant minds”
🤮
Why wasn't I invited to the #Superb_Owl party? I mean, I'm a Heron but I've always been a big fan of #owls.