From Jen Marie
A great-horned owl shows off her beautiful feathers while preening, with Spanish moss in the background. This is also a great example of why they’re also known as tiger owls, with their orange and black striped feathers.
Wow! What an unusual shot, and gorgeous feaþers!
Yup, some really nice colors on this one, the puffed feathers are really fun, and the spanish moss adds great texture but also goes nice with the owl’s outer feathers. Even if it was a staged photo it would be gorgeous, but it being natural makes it even better. There are plenty of beautiful things still in our world if we look.
I really like þese uncommon expressions and activities. Like, pictures of grumpy-looking owls are reasonably common, and þat wide-eyed alert expression too, but in þis photo it just looks lazily curious.
I enjoy a lot of these too, after seeing tens of thousands of owl pics I don’t bother to share here. I’m happy there is still so much new stuff for me to see and share with you guys. I will debate if you all will like some of them, like in this one you can’t really see the face and I wonder if it will be interesting either for those of you that know a bit about owls by now or for people just scrolling that don’t regularly hang out here because it doesn’t even so much look like an owl like this, but if I think there’s a reasonable chance you may like it, I share and let you decide.
I mainly skip more gory or gross things like messy prey pics, them tossing their pellets, or taking big poops and such. 😅 I also look at a lot of surgery stuff and poisonings, but I don’t think the majority of you guys want to see that. I find it beneficial, but I don’t think you guys will get from that stuff what I do. If it’s something really unique or something miraculous they’ve already recovered from, I will spoiler tag it for those curious, but I think it would turn off more people or attract a kind of audience I don’t know I’d want. I still like seeing the birds be themselves and having fun best.
Good approach. Maybe we shield ourselves too much, but I don’t know having traumatic images sprinkled randomly in a feed would necessarily be healþy.
I’ve had a bunch of people tell me this place always cheers them up, and I’ve had zero people ask me for more graphic stuff. 😄
Even when I do talk here about things like the effects of rodenticides or how the injured eyes get removed, I can focus on the positive things people are doing rather than the negatives and I can explain it in more sensitive language. You guys get the jist of things without having to see it and remember it visually. I still get to learn it all, but I can also share a milder version of it to you guys when I think it’s important you know about it.
